Called a mockery of justice the u. S. Ambassador denounces russias harsh sentencing of a former u. S. Marine on charges of espionage. Also on the program a blow to press freedom in the philippines 2 journalists are convicted of libel after linking a business to criminal activity and in sports its 3 down 5 to go for cats are as they get ready to officially open their 3rd stadium for the 2022 world cup. After 3 months of lockdowns several European Countries are finally reopening their land borders thats after a steady decline in the number of corona virus cases and deaths from cope with 19 the french president emmanuel macro has claimed a 1st victory with a drop in infection rates frances schengen borders have reopened and restaurants and cafes are allowed to operate at full capacity in paris nonessential stores in england are back in business and many Outdoor Attractions are open to visitors and in Greece Greece is 2 main airports well theyve resumed operations given the countrys all important tour of. An industry a boost in Asia Thailand has ended its 2 month long nationwide curfew however china illustrates the ever present danger of a 2nd wave several districts remain under lockdown and schools are closed in the Capital Beijing after dozens of new cases were detected there heres dominic kane from the german danish border where traffic is once again on the move. The border here is open but controls are still being performed by danish officials who are checking to see the categories of people trying to gain access into the country we now know that they are allowing people in who are residents and citizens of because thats the state im standing in right now bordering their country theyre also allowing in danes of course returning to denmark from germany and tourists who can prove that they have a booking to stay in denmark for 6 nights or more but they are able to turn around to force back people who dont fall into that category contrast that with the german side of the border where there are no officials and because its an inside the schengen sign people can come and go as they please that is good news for the communities on both sides of this border particularly the german side which depend very much on cross border trade for their prosperity certainly a local businessman told me hed lost 85 percent of his trade during the border closures of the last 3 months that is a sentiment thats taking place right around europe certainly other countries reopening their borders and hoping that trade will pick up thats certainly the case in paris in france with other french cities too where bars and restaurants are reopening with social distancing in place to allow for the economy to try to come back certainly from the european perspective there is the will amongst the e. U. Institutions to try to see freedom of movement returns wherever possible but here at least from the german side its there the danish side well they believe that checks should still be taking place as is happening here at the front crossing where im speaking ok lets take a live update on whats going on in england right now aljazeera jonah hall is live for us all standing on an island i see journey you must be dont get knocked down in the next 2 minutes is it chockablock is it bumper to bumper there. I mean its pretty busy its early busier than ive seen it in the last 3 months peter but you know the busiest shopping street in britain one of the busiest in the world its not the thronging mass of people one is accustomed to see to seeing weve seen large queues outside some of the Biggest Stores prime marks Sports Direct nike town at the apple store youll get your temperature checked as you walk in and be handed a free march those queues though are largely a product of the social distancing rules which mean that limited numbers of people are allowed into the stores at any one time and indeed other rules me that this is far from the normal Shopping Experience you cant pick anything up and look at it and feel it before you buy it you cant try anything on and the other big innovation of the day is that if you want to come shopping here or anywhere else by public transport you have from today to wear a mask now compulsory on public transport has travellers and commuters commuter numbers take up with the lifting locked down and it all sort of begins to beg the question just how many people are going to want an ongoing bases now take up the opportunity to come shopping in person particularly with the coronavirus pandemic still very much a reality when they could just stay at home and carry on shopping online as they have in the last 3 months and the answer seems to be well perhaps just enough to service the Business Needs of the large stores but not enough for some of the smaller ones many of whom have not opened and may well not open for some time to come as they continue to feel the economic pain of this lockdown that perhaps long after its over is what were seeing where you are right now jonah being reflected across the entire u. K. Or is this just england specific at the moment. At the moment this is just england specific the other parts of the u. K. Are still waiting to find out quite what the devolved governments attitude is to the opening of stores for the moment this is just england specific and in other parts of england and it dont leaven suggests that perhaps up to 60 percent of businesses will try to open their doors from this monday on which to the said not all will do so were not clear what will happen in the rest of the country but this is just you know the next step in what has been a gradual but frankly getting swifter and swifter lifting of the lockdown in this country sometimes in the face of Scientific Evidence to the contrary because of the enormous pain and impact that has been wrought on the economy and the pressure has just been so great on the government to start letting the economy the wheels of the economy flow again and this is just the latest iteration of that ok journal many things. Well coronavirus not done so being reimposed 15000000. 00 people in chennai and several neighboring districts in india restrictions in the Eastern Region will be enforced as of friday until the end of the month because of a big surge in new infections the government has reported 332000 cases with more than 9 and a half 1000 deaths and the situation in the capital new delhi is getting worse as india correspondent elizabeth purana now explains tonight is chief minister has announced a complete lockdown for chennai and 3 neighboring districts after meeting with Health Experts about the rising number of cases chennai and these districts are going to go back into the type of lockdown that we saw in late march when only essential services were allowed so essential shops will be allowed to open from 6 oclock in the morning till 2 in the afternoon officers are only allowed to have one 3rd of their staff present and while trains and flights will continue all other vehicles will only be allowed to be you. For essential or a merge and see services elsewhere in the country in delhi the chief minister has said that they are not going to reimpose along even though delhi along with tamil nadu and maharashtra are the worst hit states delis leaders held 2 days of meetings with the countrys interior minister about the situation in the capital they have decided to expand testing to anyone who wants to be tested at 1st they had decided to double testing over the next few days and triple after that and then really open it up to everyone they are also going to convert 500. 00 Railway Carriages and to nearly 5000. 00 isolation beds and theyre looking at using sports stadiums and hotels to use Treatment Facilities thats after the Supreme Court called the situation and where there were a lack of beds and some of the other worst hit cities deplorable lose purana reporting joining us live is David Alexander hes in florence and italy David Alexander is a professor of risk and disaster reduction University College london mr alexander welcome to the news whats your reading of the timing of opening the borders is it too early too late or just about right. That is difficult to say one of the problems here is that the decision to pierce are made a number of cases more on the basis of political prejudice than scientific fact 2 things to bury money there are 4 countries play there appears to be a 2nd one and eve if we look at iran the 2nd wave appears to be larger than the 1st wave other countries are still heading towards the peak of the 1st wave and thats important to bear in mind although the majority of countries seem to be in a phase that at the moment tentative decline of the disease whether or not they will lead to lead to the 2nd the other fact to bear in mind about this is that very often the infection rate is some of highly variable on a regional basis and you can see this in the u. K. For example we are in front of us in the final of western sheffield in the northeast and parts of the southwest 100 or rather actually parts of south wales having very high infection rates and therefore many respects blanket measures countrywide measures unless a country is very small we dont really have a great deal of significance but what we can also say is that. With bilateral relationships if the infection rate is low in the departure country than it is in the arrival country then it makes little sense to exclude people ok we had an update report from the german danish border people in face masks not so many we had a live update from the epicenter of the Shopping Experience in london Oxford Circus people in face masks not so many people or in gloves not so many how risky is that not for those people per se but for the the president s and the Prime Ministers around europe who may have to deal with the potential or the prospect of being told look weve got a 2nd wave youve got to reclaim those borders. Well true the exceptions are not really clear in sweden you need exceptions countries are to be more disciplined. In truth. And therefore wearing gloves wearing face masks observing distancing as much as possible really easy does make a difference the face mask we know does not stop you from getting the disease but it does so different transmitting if you are a carrier or if you have it it is therefore there is mounting evidence that its there for a useful tool and it does help to reduce the rate of infection and that is of course exactly what we need to test for ok we have to leave it there David Alexander great to talk to you thanks for coming on. Lots more still to come for you here in the news including after years on the run a sudanese militia leader accused of war crimes in darfor appears before the International Criminal court. Also ahead words of hope letters from Family Members and friends are becoming a lifeline for coronavirus patients in mexico. And in support well hear from the premier League Footballer demanding u. K. Politicians to do more to prevent child honda. The u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei of says the u. S. Is quote outraged by the sentencing of a former marine to 16 years in prison by court in russia paul whelan has been convicted of spying and his trial was conducted behind closed doors the u. S. Says no evidence was provided and its called for his release mr whelan says hes innocent and that he was set up he says the Russian Police planted a flash drive containing classified information whilst he was at a friends wedding 2 years ago. Ive described these proceedings as a mockery of justice and today just confirmed. An american citizen has been sentenced to a term of 16 years. For running for which we have not seen evidence hes not seen he was denied the opportunity to present witnesses in his defense he was denied the opportunity to work cooperatively with his defense counsel which in his defense counsel appointed for him not defense counsel he said. So this is a mockery of justice at least by american standards ok lets bring in our White House Correspondent kimberly held good life for us in washington kimberly what else can the u. S. Do about this. Well certainly the u. S. President could try to leverage his relationship with president putin if he wanted to try and get this individual released the says so far something that has not occurred in fact we havent heard from the u. S. President on this so far we have heard from his secretary of state as you point out saying hes outraged by the decision they called this a secret trial with secret evidence and in violation of International Human rights law the concern being that in detention he was not treated very well according to the secretary of state that the russian authorities ignored longstanding medical conditions that mr wayland had now his family also concerned about this also releasing their own statement saying that they believe well that he has their brother david whalen saying paul whalen has been convicted and now sentenced to 16 years of hard labor but really of the families do it is the russian legal system that has been found guilty of injustice they say that their Family Member paul was essentially lured by entrapment and they also say that the russian judges are political not legal so they have little hope that this appeal 2 that they expect to mount in the coming weeks that this will be successful in any way thats why the family is looking now at u. S. Government officials and again to President Trump saying that he alone can act to bring paul home we hope he will do so swiftly and there is precedent on the part of the family in terms of pinning their hopes on the actions of President Trump we know that he has been able to secure the release of americans that were held in prison to in north korea also in turkey and just more of than 10 days ago in fact also in iran so the Family Holding out a lot of hope but so far the u. S. President has said nothing about this case you can really like a little bit of an old one in us much as you know youve already touched on this relations between mr trump mr puts in a good theres no obvious. Negative backstory between washington and russia at the moment yes both countries are actors in certain conflicts in the middle east but as a quid pro quo a payback this would be a less than obvious way to do it if theres some perceived slight in the kremlin on the part of the United States. Well there are a few actions the United States has done that perhaps mr putin doesnt like particularly when it comes to some of the treaties and pushing for some security treaties to be renegotiated saying that russia has not been abiding by them bad is one of the recent actions that has taken place we do know though though in the last 10 days or so maybe a little bit longer the u. S. President had a conversation with Vladimir Putin and we know from the readout it was amicable for the most part they discussed. Covidien how to treat that as well but this is the 2 nations have a long history of going back and forth in terms of trying to kind of leverage one another i mean it would be safe to assume that whats going on here and this is a standard playbook you kind of hand out a gift to an american theres someone there to photograph it and boom suddenly theyre theyre accused of spying this has gone on back and forth for some time for decades between these 2 countries and one would expect that this will be used as leverage by the russians to try and secure the release of russian individuals that are currently detained in the United States so there seems to be much bigger things that play here between the 2 governments in order to try and achieve their ends states and caught in the middle is an american that says he was there to attend a wedding kimberly thanks very much. At least 40000000 soldiers have been killed and dozens are missing after an ambush by an armed group there the attack happened in the village of goma kuta close to the border with mauritania on sunday the United Nations earlier said gunman killed 2 of its peacekeepers in the North Western region nicholas arc is following developments for us out of senegals capital dhaka nic welcome back to the news just take us through what we think happened here. Well fishley Defense Forces havent given actual account of what happened but already were seeing on social media media video of what appears to be the attack be circulated in mali so 12 pickups heavily armed soldiers in it were attacked around 5200 on sunday afternoon in the middle of the desert were ambushed by armed men and we know that some of the pickup so the in forces have sent out. An airplane to try to find some of these soldiers many of them are missing no one has claimed responsibility for this attack but there has been other attacks in that place peter claimed by. The mean and the al qaeda affiliates led by a funny cleric anwar dooku father who is waging a war against the bosnian state and the presence of french and International Forces that are in the country and as you mentioned to you and peacekeepers died over the weekend we saw at tax also in the mali burkina faso border earlier on friday and clearly the violence is escalating in that area and it comes at a time as the u. N. Security council is set to review the mandate of the Un Peacekeeping force which is the most expensive u. N. Mission ever 1000000000. 00 a year and also the deadliest the french war chairing the u. N. Security council and the United States