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Shrine. Thousands rally demanding the Prime Minister resign. A deliberate attack on press freedom. Thats what al jazeera is calling the sentences of three of its journalists to three years in prison in egypt. Baha mohammed, peter greste and fahmyt charges al jazeera denies. Natasha gname has the story. Hope and heartbreak as two journalists return to prison. A retrial was supposed to give bahar mohammed, fahmy and peterieste a Second Opportunity top clear their names. Justice was denied yet agai...

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Desperate situation as dozens of refugees flood into macedonia try to find somewhere to call home in europe. Im George Howell. This is cnn newsroom. Good day to you. We begin this hour here in korea. The Demilitarized Zone. Round two is under way of talks, this effort to prevent war from breaking out. Delegates from both north and south korea met for ten hours on saturday, even as talks resumed, trying to ease these tensions, their militaries remain on high alert. Kathy novak has the latest. Set...

And nearby infrastructure have been demolished but the rockets kept flying. there is no information on casualties as of yet, meantime, austrian chancellor says he will meet with russian president vladimir putin in the coming hours. hell be the first european leader to meet with mr. putin since the invasion began. chancellor organized the trip during his stay in ukraine, now he met with president zelenskyy and visited bucha where dozens of bodies were discovered following the withdrawal of russia...

48 hours after the blast, coming to clean up. but here, we see more glass on the floor. what happened here can only be described as a massacre. im ben wederman reporting from kramatorsk in eastern ukraine. >> just haunting there the train station now, for weeks weve been saying the violence in ukraine, causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee the country, according to u.n. more than 4.5 million refugees gone to neighboring countries since the warring started, over 700,000 going to romania...

Country. >> our correspondents are following omicrons impact around the world. >> im frederik pleitgen in berlin, as germany now has four confirmed cases of the comicron variant. this is a major concern for germany as the country is in the midst of a wave of coronavirus infections anyways. next door in the netherlands, the authorities there say that the omicron variant arrived there a week earlier than previously thought. in fact, the authorities say that they detected omicron in a simple from n...

Course, serbia as sauf as possible, but alsos to care about these people and show that we are humane enough. >> hungary says its accepted 70 asylum applications and rejected 40. those who havent made it into hungary say theyre not going anywhere until they can continue on through europe. ben wedeman has the story. >> reporter: hungary imposed harsh penalties for anyone trying to get over. baffled by the sudden change, this syrian from aleppo had a message for the prime minister of hungary. we wa...

Something like that in europe. if europe has common european asylum system, and you look at this mess here, when y is it? >> reporter: not here. the children may be too young to understand, while the parents, their fate yet again in the hands of the powerful, can only hope for a solution. at t moment, hungary seems unwilling to open its gates, but for some of these people who have come from as far away as afghanistan, turning around and going home is not an option. ben wedeman, cnn on the serbi ...

Hundreds of migrants, maybe even thousands waking up in serbia today and hoping to continue their journey through europe. but one of the main routes is sealed shut. lun go aheadry has plugged the final hole in its border fence. some migrants can still get into hungary legally through two assigned checkpoints. authorities say they have accepted 70 asylum application and rejected 40. and nearly 300 mie grants have been arrested for trying to cross illegally. the final destination for most of the m...

Focus on the trade of looted antiquities. >> were trying to clear up this dark field of organized crime to understand the networks to understand how people interact to understand how much money is being made how the objects come from iraq and syria. >> reporter: in the end, however, the looters and smugglers are merely responding to the demands of consumers in north america, europe and the gulf. >> we must not forget there would be no pillaging and there would be less incentives for pillaging ar...