War very often appeals victory in court. For president two Supreme Court justices are arrested hours after the government declares a state of emergency. Israeli forces kill a palestinian man wanted for the shooting death of a settler. A european markets of open to heavy losses with london paris and frankfurt all dropping by more than three percent in early trading elsewhere asian markets crumbled as investors took their lead from a huge selloff on wall street the dow jones tumbled more than a thousand points on monday more than four and a half percent that was the biggest fall in percentage terms since august twenty seventh in response to pans benchmark nikkei closed down three point seven three percent earlier on tuesday while hong kongs benchmark hang seng index closed down five point one two percent china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. Well the markets here in asia really took the lead from wall street the markets in chan zen and shanghai were both down around about two percent in morning Trading Hong Kong did a lot worse though down by more than five percent the reason for that is that in hong kong a lot of International Companies trade on that index and a lot of those companies are exposed to the United States whereas companies here the traders on the markets in shanghai and then tend to be Domestic Companies that dont trade internationally we havent seen the falls that we saw of course in two thousand and fifteen when the markets here in china plunged by between five and seven percent on that occasion we did see panic we did see anger and we did see Government Intervention now Chinese People have very few places to invest their money its either property or shares and neither have been doing particularly well in recent months but overall Chinese People seem to feel their economy is doing ok thats what a columnist tell you in state controlled media and there is a sense that perhaps g. D. P. Is in fact a little bit higher than the government been hoping for and well get confirmation of what chinas g. D. P. Forecast will be in the year ahead when Chinas Parliament the National Peoples congress convenes in just a few weeks time and chinese leaders will be hoping that the market volatility were seeing right now will be over by then adrian brown there was a shooter is a professor of management at the university of shes a walker he says the falls in asia are bad but far from catastrophic. Well actually in japan were seeing is obviously reaction to other markets in us and of course in europe and with the acceleration of the yen obviously theres been a so off the japanese exports could been leading the market so there is negativity but at the same time people were expecting this correction to take place so i dont think at this moment there is a crisis feeling that is amongst the japanese investors at this moment i dont think its going to prolong or its going to be a serious previous are crashes the reason for it being is that this is back to very good earnings in the States Europe and in japan so off from that point of view we can see that its not as bubbly as it was in the past but that said the problem here is that this prolongs if we see a downturn in the United States and europe obviously what will happen is that there will be a lot of money flowing in safe haven money into the yen which basically accelerates the yen and obviously that will result in a very bad earnings forecast for japanese exporters that would be a very big negative scenario for the japanese authorities three home kong prodemocracy activists are walking free this tuesday after their convictions were overturned on appeal Joshua Wong Nathan low and Alex Chadwick convicted of Unlawful Assembly in two thousand and sixteen two years earlier as teenagers they helped bring hong kong to a standstill as leaders of the socalled im delap protests thousands took to the streets calling for greater democracy all hong kong though its part of china operates on a different political system to the mainland activists warning of growing interference by beijing leaving cold joshua wall said the battle over the right to protest in hong kong is far from over even the judge just allow us to lift the cost we still face the same. Range of prison sentences in the future which means that the court of appeal have fully as sat and thought the principal of the judgment from the court of appeal in the future if and a well organized action related to civil disobedience just like regain survey square action will still face the sentence to be a lot of interests and for field was even more than a year thats why i will say that is a long time battle for us for sarah clarke is live for us in hong kong with more on this is sara obviously good news this not just for the for the three men but for the movement as a whole. Absolutely and as you can see behind me there just the three student leaders have just left court you just heard the sound grab from them expressing relief with regards to todays decision the three of them are now dispersed being followed by the supporters of certainly good news for the likes of knight and law alex and joshua long now theyre free to go and this is the final court of appeal so this is the last stop so this particular case cant be revisited within the courts now let me explain the situation so the judges have ruled by sickly to our whole the initial sentences which were delivered in the Magistrates Court a noise were on charges for Unlawful Assembly for the three student leaders roll in the store what was described as a storming of the government full court in the latest of legs of council and they were delivered Community Service and one suspended sentence and then by the government intervened and requested that those sentences be made a more harsh or tougher and they took them back to the court of appeal and thats when the court of appeals gave them these jail terms three with them granted the right to appeal those particular jail senses which i described were tough and today is the final verdict along the white one given there were charges in two thousand and sixteen their role actually charges related to an incident back in two thousand and fourteen and today two thousand and eighteen we have the final verdict which is allowed for the three of them to walk free and to what extent is this a test of hong kong courts and their independence with all of the tensions going on between hong kong the Hong Kong Government and beijing. Well certainly you have to say this is an endorsement of the hong kongs independence of the judiciary system and one that the judicial system the Legal Fraternity here are very proud of that they work at an arms length and independently of anything happening within the politics or certainly in china and theyve also stated that in the court today that this was not a political debate this decision was based on the legal implications of the legal assessment in evidence and i should start though as well as the them being allowed to go free there was one extra now its meant to or certainly a tightening of god lines from now on for those who do partake or participate in an Unlawful Assembly so the rules have been tarred and this has been raised by the three student leaders is one to watch and of concern it means that in from now on any protests police or court action can be tough on. The independence additionally has been allowed and endorsed protesters in the prodemocracy movement have suggested that their future action or the future prodemocracy protests may be scrutinized in a more harsh fashion. Big victory for the prodemocracy movement their circle of life force in hong kong an Opposition Leader and choose supremes called judges in the mold these have been arrested former president. Who has aligned himself with the opposition was detained at his home while the chief justice and a judge were also arrested president has declared a fifteen day state of emergency and the militarys in charge of the parliament some of jabot has that. Just hours after a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives this board carries a prominent Opposition Leader to the countrys main jail on a Remote Island the. Moment of the un was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says this politically motivated. His family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope. In this police came to arrest me im going with them i dont even know why they are arresting me ive done nothing wrong or unlawful i urge the people of multipath to be strong and stand with us we will win. With the arrested but do judges for the deepening the political crisis. It all began on thursday when the Supreme Court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president Mohamed Nasheed just also reinstated twelve m. P. s who had lost their seats for supporting the opposition but president of the yemeni refused to comply with the ruling and celebrations turned into protests. Yeah i mean also declared a fifteen day state of emergency and ordered the military to secure the Parliament Building for an indefinite period. And this is. In addition to the two judges police raided the house of the administrative head of the Supreme Court the court says police didnt have enough evidence to arrest the judicial executive president who happens to be the half brother of the arrested leader to be you came to power in two thousand and thirteen that was a year after Moldavian Police and army overthrew president Mohamed Nasheed but in a shaky democracy president i mean has also faced similar allegations of becoming authoritarian and being corrupt yet the Supreme Court was expected to do favorably on a petition to impeach you i mean Opposition Leaders allege the president s loyalists made it clear that they would not comply with such a verdict and launched a crackdown. For now the country best known for its tranquil beaches is struggling to deal with yet another round of political turmoil some of the job is there. Now a kenyan politician has been charged for his role in a rebel socalled swearing in ceremony for main Opposition Leader while a dingo police say the gooner huna is accused of several charges including Unlawful Assembly and engaging in organized criminal activity Opposition Leader a danger rejected president hu kenyatta as victory in last octobers elections more now from Catherine Sawyer who joins us now from nairobi suck after what more can tell us on this. Absolutely. This very fiery opposition politician also the self declared leader of a National Resistance movement that was started by the opposition last year to push for electoral reforms through what they say peaceful resistance now that group has been declared by the government an organized criminal group going to himself was arrested last week very dramatically we covered the fact and the judge last week ordered that he believed on bail pending his pending his case that did not happen on monday the judge again ordered that he be presented before before him before the courts in a ruby again the government defied done the police defied the order and the judge said he must be present and pass in the lead by the Inspector General of police and the director of criminal investigations this morning at six g. M. T. Thats nine am law call and then were waiting in court and we hear that me good has been taken and before has been presented before another court of Magistrates Court in the south a couple of hours from nairobi and charged with this hes been charged with being present and consenting to the administration of an oath to commit treason and also charged with taking part in an Unlawful Assembly during the nassau thats the Opposition Coalition swearing in park or in january thirtieth so many supporters of me who know why the nairobi courts wilting for him the very young groom when he was imprisoned at police had to fire tear gas to disperse them and we understand as well catherine the governments also switched off a number of Television Television stations there whats the story there and back on. Absolutely this television stations was switched off last week on tuesday as they were trying to cover this walk swearing in over a load to provide live coverage of this work swearing in at the time the minister in charge of interior say that that event was organized and was announced to overthrow the government he said that investigations have been launched into the organizers of that event into the event itself and to facilitate as of that event that included the media houses so immediately this three media houses of independent media houses some of the most popular media houses in the country a was switched off two of them katie and t. V. Already back on air but citizen t. V. And its subsidiary called in oral Steele Lawfare people were not very sure why this two stations are still off air so all this has been causing a lot of concern people really worried about what is going on a lot of people saying and human rights organizations as well saying that what the government is doing is rolling back the democratic gains that have already been made in this country through a lot of sweat and a lot of had ship but then government officials the police saying that nobody really is about the law what happened last tuesday was an attempt to overthrow the government and this has to be investigated and people have to be held to account catherine shoreline first in nairobi thank you. Well still ahead on i just you know were live in south sudan way human Rights Groups say the government and the opposition are still recruiting child soldiers even after promising not to trust. The. Women in the u. K. Celebrate the suffragettes one hundred years after they got the right to vote. 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Twitter activism with a new mission. Build software for. Digital this is within the technological. Tools to get security to the patients in their field in the capital. To the record. At this time on aljazeera. And again youre watching the mind of our top stories this hour three political activists are walking free and hong kong off to their convictions were overturned on appeal joshua wall nathan more and Alex Chadwick were convicted of Unlawful Assembly in two thousand and sixteen two years earlier they led huge they led huge protests calling for greater democracy. Political crisis in the mold leaves is deepening after the arrest of an Opposition Leader and two shoe print court judges thats just hours after a state of emergency was declared. European markets of open to heavy losses with london paris and frankfurt all dropping all the three percent in early trade asian markets crumbled as investors took their lead from a huge selloff on wall street. And as markets around the world to hit by u. S. Losses the white house is preparing itself for the political impact was when jordan has more from washington. If investors werent spooked by the u. S. Stock market selloff on friday theyre almost certainly wishing theyd put in for a three day weekend the Dow Jones Industrial average fell four point six percent on monday and its down eight point five percent since its high point on january twenty sixth that means stocks are now cheaper but the value of retirement and investment accounts has dropped making americans poorer at least on paper some market watchers fear the u. S. Could be on the brink of recession but not everyone agrees in re