You know that the truck. Was a population in the wild one step back of the tours northwesterly work on that story coming up. And on people stream it with your school Roger Federer announces he will not play at the french open thats after the 20 time grand slam champion reveals he has undergone need surgery. But 1st a former advisor to the u. S. President donald trump has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison roger stone was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into whether Trumps Campaign with russia is also feed and urges to pay a fine of 20000. 00 lets go live to our White House Correspondent kimberly whole kits for more on this kimberly that sentence has been handed down much shorter than the suggested sentence why is this. Well its certainly notable and judge amy Burton Jackson did say that she took both the initial recommendation of 7 to 9 years as well as the revised recommendation from department of justice prosecutors into account notable that she has struck a sentence somewhere in the middle as you pointed out there are 40 months or 3 years 4 months as well as a 24 month probation period thats a 20000. 00 fine the judge in this case had a lot to say about how she came to her decision on that sentence she said that roger stone has not been prosecuted for standing up for President Trump but instead for covering up for the president she pointed to the fact that he had lied to congressional investigators she said when he said that he had no contact with one of the witnesses she called that a flat out lie in fact noting that there were documented up to 1500 texts and emails of communication she also went on to say that he brought this on himself that he inserted himself smack into the middle of one of the most incendiary issues of the day namely the investigation by Robert Muller into whether or not Donald Trumps president ial campaign had colluded with russia so she did take into account she said a number of letters from his friends and family who had requested lenience leniency but in the end she said that there were many things that roger stone had done himself that she could not ignore including the fact that he posted on instagram a picture of the judge next to a rifle scope and crosshairs templating and your police 3 intolerable in the administration of justice guess im also watching the monitor as well as we continue to talk and that just to be clear that very last point i said was rather important it was essentially that she felt she had to make this sentence big. Because to not do so would be intolerable to the administration of justice this was a very angry judge as she issued this sentence and as we watch these pictures you can see there roger stone a lot of media interest about this case getting into what looks like a an s. U. V. With a lot of security this is a man who has been at the heart of a lot of controversy making serious allegations against this judge as they pointed out not only posted on social media but also many of the supporters of President Trump really seeing him is as a person who has been a victim of what they say is a politically loaded case they point to the fact the judge had been appointed by the former democratic president barack obama she dismissed all of this and many of her supporters in the Legal Community also saying that when it comes to a sentence it comes down to strict sentencing guidelines we see there roger stone driving away but thats not the end of what we likely will hear from roger stone in fact there had been a gag order in this case i believe it has been lifted in fact the judge even saying the she expects that roger stone will have more to say about this case she said i expect he will keep talking. Kimberly this so its been its been quite a a case that has been quite politicized shall we say perhaps because of the connections or just one has to the current u. S. President s he has of course been reacting throughout the trial and write this suggested sentence being released and has there been any reaction thats how the sentences being handed daryn from the white house. You are absolutely right when you say that roger stone is connected hes been a friend of President Trumps for more than 3 decades some 35 years in fact the president did weigh in and thats what resulted in the initial downgrading of the recommended sentence the president called the recommended sentence a miscarriage of justice thats when the attorney general presumably weighed in of the prosecutors came up with a new sentencing recommendation piers the judge has gone somewhere down the middle but the president has been very vocal about this case in fact one of the things he said this morning in a tweet was they say roger stone lied to congress oh i see so did coley hes referring to the former f. B. I. Director james comey he goes on to say f. B. I. Exclamation point fairness question mark what is insinuating is that everybody lies to congress and why is this bad and not for another individual so expect the president may have something to say about this he has been doing a bit of a west coast tour and we expect that he may have something to say at a rally when he speaks later on some hours from now in colorado but the bottom line is the judge addressed the highly partisan nature of this case saying that if roger stone go some polish it will not be a victory for any one party she said in the midst of all this everyone loses ok kimberly how could their life as i inside the white house for now i thank you very much indeed just reminds our fears of who wrote your story is and why he is so critical were his works with Richard NixonRonald Reagan george h. W. Bush and george w. Bush because his role in donald Trumps Campaign which has landed him in court in the warm up to the 20 816. 00 election he tried to launch a Smear Campaign against Hillary Clinton using the web site wiki leaks he was questioned about that last year during the movie or investigation and he law its threatens another witness to do the same and hades documents for. Investigators in that probe prosecutors said his crimes warrants its up to 9 years in prison but that sorcery here from kimberly was all the rules by attorney general william bar shortly after tweets issued by President Trump the war for prosecutors quits after that decision which many are calling a blatant pressure from the white house lets get more now from Claire Finkelstein shes the faculty director for the center of ethics and the rule of law at the university of Pennsylvania Law School a good to have you with us again on the news hour lets take a look at the sentence so far is it in line with these kind of crimes do you think justice has been served. Well its important to notice that the sentence was 40 months which is smack dab in the middle of the 2nd recommendation that the Justice Department made namely the recommendation that occurred after the president tweeted and william barr stepped in and required his prosecutors to issue another sentencing memo there are recommendation was 37 to 46 months which was a huge reduction from the sentence that was originally. Presented by the prosecutors and the judge in this case said that she thought that the original memo suggesting up to 9 years in prison was really too harsh despite the fact that she seemed to agree with all the enhanced saying factors that increase the sentence and was the basis for the original recommendation the question then is whether or not just spite her strong stance on this and the willingness of this judge to stand up to President Trump as seen by her sentence of paul manna for whether or not she was in fact influenced by the controversy surrounding this case and the pressure that the president has been putting on both her and on the Justice Department to be lenient with regard to his pal roger stone this is perhaps a critical issue is it not that nobody can have confidence in whatever sentence is handed down by this judge or unseats any judge i mean are we now to question the motives or judge ease in the united states. Well shes been a very fair and very law and order judge after all what she did in the face of the pressure with regard to paul man of 4 was incredibly brave she took a lot of heat for it and shes been under constant pressure from this administration she also has a long history of being a fair reliable and very careful judge she gave a long speech today explaining that her sentence was not influenced by political factors and she was very very strong in rejecting both the president s behavior and roger stones behavior which really went to the heart of the kind of obstructive conduct that we see on a regular basis from this president roger stone had in the very trial itself ignored repeated orders from her for example he ignored the gag order and in the face of that gag order continue to tweet about it he also attempted to intimidate a witness by threatening to kill his dog and this kind of behavior really infects a trial and suggests that if its allowed to stand that it is not possible to achieve justice so by taking a strong stance against this kind of obstruction she did score points for the rule of law but the question is whether or not the sentence was really harsh enough to reflect the enhanced wins that were validated by this kind of conduct particular finkelstein great to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us there from the university of Pennsylvania Law School. Police in germany are treating a mass shooting in the western city of hama as an act of terrorism 9 people were killed when a gunman went on a shooting rampage on wednesday nights chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the attack and says there are many signs the perpetrator axis of racism for more on this lets bring in dominic came his life or as in berlin dominic what morkie tell us about this case. Hello ive no move from berlin to her now and behind me you see streams of people going past all stopping pausing to gaze at one of the venues where the shootings took place less than 24 hours ago innocent people just enjoying the time in the midnight shift when the person the perpetrator came in fact did an injury and then shot indiscriminately people you see there are floral tributes of being placed here also there has been a Memorial Service in this town in the last hour or so the German Federal president frankfurter steinmeyer was there to show his respects to pay his respects to the victims but also to warn of the dangers of far right violence in this country and as ive been finding out this is not an isolated incident over the last few years there have been many. This is where the shooting started one of 2 she shouldve asked to be targeted which were known to be frequented by members of the Kurdish Community the 43 year old perpetrator made his way into each place and then opened fire indiscriminately on innocent people finally fleeing the scene in a car to go home and kill his own mother before then taking his own life the shock of the local community is mirrored by that of government ministers who confirmed their primary line of inquiry is that i listened to norm the entire given that is that everything is being done to clarify up to the last detail the background of these horrific killings there are many indications at the moment that the perpetrator acted on right wing extremist rice has marja us out of high trade towards people of other origins religion or parents. This is not the 1st violent attack to be associated with far right criminals in recent times. The 27 year old man is currently on trial for the murder of 2 people outside a synagogue in the city of hellen last autumn. And last summer the christian democrat mayor of a western german city was shot dead by a person with known links to the far right. The important thing to stress here is amongst the condemnation of what took place there has also been certainly from the German Foreign minister heikal mass from the social Democrat Party he has said that the country must now come come to terms with the fact the far right violence is here to stay in germany and must be confronted and clearly thats a sentiment that many of the people who walking behind me seeing the venue where the shootings took place they echo that sentiment back to you ok dominic in their life as in hanau thank you. Now the German Parliament has recently approved a bill targeting hate speech on social media the government says there were nearly 9 fan isnt attacks by far right groups and individuals in the 1st half of last year thats an increase over thousands compared to the same period the year before 2185. 00 states reported at least 3 right wing racist and anti jewish attacks per day the government says it stepped up efforts to tackle the problem last week 12 men were arrested for planning attacks against Asylum Seekers muslims and politicians and earlier this month the leader of the governing christian democrats said shes stepping down after a state premier joined forces with the far right alternative for Germany Party is the 1st time thats happened since the 2nd world war as you are called schindler is a senior director at the cancer extremism project and a former german diplomats he says for right politics in the conflicts in ukraine have contributed to the rise in violence. The Security Services have been very clear that that is the rise in violence theres also a rise in the number of right wing individuals that the Intelligence Service is monitoring and that the state Intelligence Services in germany on one is going to be to actually have rising right wing problems while the same category of individuals on the terrorist islamist side and some state related is actually stuck meeting now for 2 years theres always been a big rock. Stream is in germany and that has never really gone away since the 2nd world war what you had obviously changed the Political Landscape in the last 5 years with the rise of the alternative for germany up to that brought some of the movement into the war the political arena but we also had something that was quite well looked in a conflict where the right meaning extremist of your all actually engaged because much the same way that you had with the Islamic State in syria that was the conflict in the ukraine worst are going to want to put a half 1000 europeans of nonrational origin fought on both sides of the conflict primarily to gain military experience and they are back now so all these individuals are in extreme risk factor and what is sleep in if you was a new level of willingness to violence into a right when it works in your all that goes beyond germany. Police in london have arrested a man after a stabbing attack at the prison capitals biggest mosque details are still emerging but the victim a man in his seventys who reportedly worked at a mosque has been treated by paramedics and taken to hospital lets go straight to rory challenges live for us in Central London rory what markie tell us. So 3 hours ago just after the beginning of of afternoon prayers when about 200 people were in attendance a man with a knife tried to stab in the mosque seems there in the middle a he didnt manage to start. Managed to stab the more isnt a man who for 25 to 30 years here has calls for you to pray now the victim in his seventys was taken to hospital and his condition as we understand is not thought to be life threatening now the man who is suspected of doing this was pinned to the flaw by other members of the congregation the Police Arrived they took him away. Obviously in the aftermath of whats happened in germany people who are very worried that this might be some kind of copycats event or ideologically linked in some way that the man who the police took away at 29 year old was white but now what the police are saying is they do not think that this is a terrorist incident and the reason we believe why theyre saying that is because from what ive been gathering here by speaking to people the man who you think did this has been attending prayers here for some 6 months and they view this as something of a regular perhaps someone who has Mental Health issues or was otherwise a bit one of. The ok were a challenge that life for us in Central London thank you. Theres plenty more so to come on this news hour including. Im simona in iraqs Southern City of last 3 or 4 demonstrators have refused to give in despite growing pressure from other parties join us here on aljazeera to learn why the city has played a key role in uprisings past and present. And a former top fee for official is charged with accepting. Whats coming up with peter in sports. Turkey says 2 of its soldiers have been killed and 5 injured in airstrikes near syrias in the province its military has been shelling Syrian Government positions in the northwestern city of sarah keep the governments captured the city from rebels 2 weeks ago as part of its push to betake the last rebel held area turkish present bunch of tired purdah one has issued an ultimatum for syrian troops to pull outs or face retaliation. Has been following the situation from hot say in turkey near the syrian border. The campaign is still and away with intense fighting but ticket in the on the outskirts of. The main city that is located on the intersection of the 2 major highways and 4 and 5 the rebels say that they have taken full control of the town over and they and that they are determined