Of the cost of a serious devastating bushfires. And mourning the conscience of Congress Civil rights leader john lewis lies in state in the u. S. Capitol. Hill is former Prime Minister najib razak has been found guilty of 7 corruption charges the verdict comes from the 1st trial linked to the one n. D. B. State Investment Fund scandal from when he was in power continues to die deny any wrongdoing and says he will appeal. This is the 1st case is centered on the transfer of nearly 10000000. 00 from a unit of one m d b into personal accounts is being convicted of abuse of power 3 counts of criminal breach of trust and 3 counts of Money Laundering and he belongs to one m. T. B. As a state Investment Fund when he was Prime Minister in 2009 songs louis has the latest from college im poor. The judge took a couple of hours to read out his verdict and he found not guilty on all 7 counts and now the defense lawyers are now arguing for a stay in sentencing so were not yet sure whether the judge is going to pass a sentence today or if the defense lawyers have their way then there are them that may happen only next week on monday which is what defense lawyers osting for now the charges for which it has been found guilty they carry rather have to be punishment ranging from 20 years in prison thats the maximum sentence to fine of 5 times the amount of gratification that the accused has been found to have received so that could run into tens of millions of dollars now and this is just the 1st step of course not has said he will appeal and malaysia has a 2 tier appeals process so that could take up 2 years before the appeals process is exhausted james chin is a professor of Asian Studies at the sterlings university of tasmania and he says this ruling will diminish much of no jobs remaining political clout. Prior to this ruling your general consequence of you know is that you will be on your some other charges but not all the charges so there. You are all the tried it with human issues political strength but having said that you know how ukraine joe at least our are we are not and hes hoping to get real on this one and you. Cases because you are trying to regain the Prime Ministership. I think the party is trying to draw a line of bodies when m. T. V. Issue for the past couple months theyve been trying to rebrand themselves i think there was hoping that not it will not be on you but if your new found you the i think those screening. In terms of the doma stick political consequences of course these laws and not the irony is the more youre doing because im not i speak trying to pressure more you know the goal for snap election. Last year as you. Probably suggested. Because the both just look at these corruption. The United States 1st large scale covert 1000. 00 vaccine study has begun the stage 3 Clinical Trials are one of the final hurdles before government approval can be granted its a process President Donald Trump hopes will deliver the vaccine as soon as possible as he heads towards the election in november i did joe castle reports from maryland. People think u. S. Is to have a viable Coronavirus Vaccine by early next year its volunteers like Melissa Harding who will help make that happen everyone in my family is medical i have been in that place up at their cell were all on the front lines then. Can be easily affected by it so doing our part to eradicate it is very important to me shes among 30000 participants to test shots created by the u. S. Government and the private company mcgurn or other vaccine candidates will be tested in coming months weve been sitting on the sidelines passively attempting to wear a mask and social distance and not go out when its not necessary this is the 1st step of becoming active against this the covert death toll in the us is greater than 100 in 47000 more than 4200000 americans have been infected that now includes Robert ObryantNational Security adviser the white house says obrien has mild symptoms and did not expose the president on july 10th the 2 were together in florida the state thats now the u. S. Epicenter with more than 10000 infections a day. Supporting members of the florida marlins have tested positive throwing the u. S. Professional baseball season into disarray meanwhile unemployed americans have stopped receiving federal checks of 600. 00 a week a republican plan in congress would resume those checks but slashed the payment by 2 thirds democrats say they wont agree and a partisan battle is expected how does your castro aljazeera maryland. Lebanons Prime Minister has warned israel of a dangerous military escalation that he says has violated lebanese sovereignty. Has urged caution in the coming days over heightened border tensions it comes a day after israels military said it had stopped an attempt by husband to infiltrate across the lebanese front here group denies the claims are false reports from west to receive them. Smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the Israeli Military referred to as a security incident it said a cell of hezbollah fighters trying to infiltrate israeli controlled territory Israeli Soldiers tracked them and repelled them with machine gun tank and artillery fire in tel aviv where theyd rushed for security assessments israels julian Prime Minister and defense minister put on a rare show of unity government. A cell of hezbollah terrorists crossed into israel in an attempt to harm Israeli Soldiers i. D. F. Soldiers and officers acted professionally and accurately and prevented a severe incident that could have cost human lives. Israels Prime Minister made an explicit reference to the war of 2006 in warning hezbollahs leader Hassan Nasrallah that israels armed forces stood ready to respond further because volatile darks hizbollah must understand that it is playing with fire made a big mistake when it is israels its own nation to defend itself and lebanon paid a price any attack against us will be met with great force i urge him not to repeat this mistake and we do not live a normal. Israel has been on heightened alert since an airstrike last week in syria attributed to israel killed a hezbollah fighter there has been has vowed to avenge any such deaths in southern lebanon the aftermath of the israeli artillery barrage hezbollah denied having carried out any operation saying israelis fired into lebanon out of confusion and panic and its statement was read out on the hezbollah affiliated elman our t. V. Then. It was all one sided and it was by an enemy that is afraid terrified and worried our response to the martyrdom of our brother ali kamil most and who died in the Zionist Attack in the damascus airport region is definitely coming and theres scientists should be whiting for the punishment of their crimes last year a similar set of circumstances led to a hezbollah attack on an Israeli Military post and a limited israeli response it was over within hours both sides seemingly keen to avoid an escalation that motivation has only intensified since with a surging pandemic in israel and an economic crisis in lebanon but for now at least hezbollah is saying that this round isnt over are a force that aljazeera wester islam. China suspending the extradition treaties with the u. K. Canada and australia its a reciprocal move after those 3 countries suspended their extradition agreements with china over the new security law imposed on hong kong new zealands did the same and tuesday and china says it reserves the right for further reaction in response to new zealands decision according to un reports female prisoners in north korea are tortured particularly those who fled the country and were forced to return it says detainees are regularly abused and beaten by prison officials as punishment information is based on 1st hand accounts of 100 women who were detained in north korean prisons for years our correspondent Robert Bryant has more from seoul rob just what more do we know about the background to this. Well this is the latest report by the un there have been a number of over the years looking in particular the conditions in north koreas notorious prison camp system its estimated that its a system that accommodates well over 150000 prisoners many of them being Political Prisoners this report focused just on the experience of women in this system and its this is based upon the testimony of women who over the past decade had to skate from north korea had been captured returned to north korea detained once more and did their skate again to be able to give their accounts of conditions inside these camps and it paints a very grim picture of systematic beatings maltreatment torture rapes and so on the report was compiled by the United Nations as they always do they send it to north korea for to give them the chance to corroborate to respond and north korea often does it refuse to accept this report it often just dismisses out of hand all of these human rights reports it says that they paint a false picture of life in north korea it also condemns the people who give evidence saying that they are untrustworthy these are people who they say are not friends of north korea theyve escaped from the country whom they often described as being human scum thats the label they often give to defectors so we probably cant expect much change from north korea or north koreas prison camp system also we can only maybe expect a limited response from south korea this is a very liberal administration that has been trying to foster better relations with north korea and has often been accused by right wing or conservative groups here of overlooking human rights abuses in that author something the south korean government would not accept but would point to trying to look for the bigger goal of trying to improve relations across the d. M. Z. In order to ultimately try to improve all the fumin rights for everybody north of the border in north korea. The trauma brought in bringing us the latest from so rob thank you very much indeed and the news ahead another attempt at solving the political crisis regional leaders stefano once again in mali. Hello the pension i sunshine throughout much of Southern Europe to the north is a bit of a different story some fairly blustery winds coming in with that cloud and also the shadows that very nice in the south of france people out enjoying the warm summer weather and of course across in the southwest of hungary a bit of a different story the weather has certainly improved but now the fed waters receded you can really see the damage that has been done over the last week and just look at this damage here to this particular rope this is a conditions have certainly been improving the last couple of days meanwhile to the north we have this area of low pressure working its way across the north sea bringing those a shower as with those fairly strong reasons across into much of southern scandinavia and leaving effaced showery pattern read across much of the u. K. Fairly cloudy as well wanted to areas of rain farther to the south through france Northern Areas of italy and then through wednesday we have got High Pressure just in the ridge of it beginning to not jump across much of the u. K. Say stopping the rain coming in from the west meanwhile across eastern areas again of the line of rain showers and thunderstorms but you can see the warm as neah warm things up generally safe a london sunday by friday look at this 30 degrees celsius against an average of 23 good sunny skies it wont last forever the need to warn you about the while and also their time which is not as high but even so not fairing too badly against the average of july 21 degrees and then somewhere that is usually warm is the south of spain 40 in seville friday. Jump into the stream and julian on Global Community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on hand will online be part of the debate let me put some you she comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way he treats human equating business if were going to adapt to climate break out of this stream on out is there a. Herd. We want to know it is iraq reminder of our top stories this hour malaysias former Prime Minister najib razak has been found guilty of all 7 charges in his 1st trial linked to the one m. T. B. F. Scandal prosecutors say hundreds of millions of dollars in the state funds were deposited into his accounts. President donald trump says the u. S. Made Coronavirus Vaccine has now entered the final trials before it can be approved says it could be ready for widespread use by the end of the year. Lebanons Prime Minister has warned israel of a dangerous military escalation that he says has violated lebanese sovereignty it follows israel accusing the Lebanese Armed group of infiltrating the border hezbollah denies the claims United Nations is urging restraint from both sides. U. S. Attorney general william barr is expected to defend the justice departments use of federal Law Enforcement agents to stop protests in portland is due to testify at a congressional hearing later on tuesday more demonstrations are taking place in the city against racism and Police Brutality protesters are also angry about the presence of federal officers who were deployed by President Donald Trump for and officials have been pushing for the federal government to withdraw the agents. Police in australia have shut down a black lives macho protest in sydney and arrested at least 6 people before the event could get underway for testers had said they would hold a rally like previous ones despite a court order denying them a permit because of the pandemic dog gatherings in the state of New South Wales are now limited to 20 people the protest was meant to call attention to the death of an indigenous man in Police Custody in 2050. Scientists say nearly 3000000000 animals were killed or displaced by a strain is last bushfire season the World Wide Fund for nature describes it as one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history while koalas became the face of the crisis it affected nearly every species on the continent many animals that didnt die in the flames faced starvation dehydration and attacks by other animals but lets speak to Christopher Dickman hes a professor of terrestrial ecology at the university of sydney hes joining us now so we appreciate your time thank you for joining us on aljazeera the thing that strikes me 1st and i think would strike most people about this report is the scale of the impact. Is think you 3000000000 is the huge number and something of a shock when we compile the numbers and found that it was only 2500000000 animals that would have been in the path of the flames so thats really huge difficult to get to get around i think im right in saying that you were part of this problem for you over solve this project are we seeing a significant change to the ecology of australia as a result of this. This really is always the you know the fire prone continent certain fires are already part of the ecology but i think the sort of ours that we saw over the last season were so big so extensive that we really havent seen anything to do before and i think because not of the forest city what is the. Developments and the treatment to a large degree it will mean that some of the chunks of forests will and it is very difficult for the list mobile species to come back so we will be looking. Pretty good for us to state as a consequence as well as drawing attention to the situation what are you hoping that we can all learn from this. Think one of the things we we really need to take away is that and monitoring before the fires versus 8 was a very good and would like to see is much worse is it one of 3 through the forests and woodlands and other by regions in the continent so that we get more idea of where these are who are ecological communities and not and the tracking of the time what he thinks the difference to the incidence are it might put us in the position theyre in for the virus in the future to be able to predict who should go where i mention if its should be most targeted perhaps in the wake of the fire or the where recovery teams and Recovery Efforts should be as focused as well the military would be a critical listen to learn from this the bushfire season that you were specifically talking about was one of the most serious that there has been was there any indication from your study that it was promulgated by human intervention is there stuff that people can do themselves to try to avoid the scale of the brush fires that weve seen. Think given the climate conditions in 2100 it would be very difficult to do anything to to really stop them it was the driest and the hottest year on record of illustrator and i think that combination of conditions leading up to the fires and the fire weather. Really the whole east coast and much of the rest of the the forests so its like a tinderbox really to the garbage lines so its hard to see what could be done there are discussions going on with their inquiries and reviews it may be that the end of this process will have some its a bit rowdy is no help to try to ward off the worst of these kinds of laws in the future what least really were going to be erupting an