After being sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption. Announces a 5 day long down just ahead of the ied holiday as corona virus infections theres. A battle over beachgoers spain germany and the u. K. Face off because of coronavirus restrictions. And losing homes and livelihoods hundreds of thousands of people in bangladesh wait for help in rising flood waters im johnny cash a scope of the sport as more crime the virus cases placing Major League Baseball season in further doubts and 500. 00 an hour england cricket says to ward joins an elite club as a matter of victory in the test series against the west indies. It is the trial thats put one nations resolve to stamp out corruption to the ultimate tests now a court. Malaysia has convicted former Prime Minister najib razak on a string of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in prison but he wont go straight to jail and says that hell appeal the trial was one of 5 that he was facing linked to a scandal surrounding a state Investment FundFlorence Louis reports from kuala lumpur. Was guilty on all 7 counts and sentenced to prison for a maximum of 12 years and a fine of 50000000. 00 but the judge has allowed a delay in carrying out the sentence. Former Prime Minister of malaysia has been convicted of Money Laundering criminal breach of trust and abuse of power thats for illegally receiving nearly 10000000. 00 from s. R. C international a former subsidiary of state Investment Fund one empty beach yet that sums only a fraction of the 4 and a half 1000000000. 00 that us and malaysian Authorities Say have been stolen from one end. The judge rejected not just defense that hes been tricked by finances and he described the argument that not just was led to believe the money was part of a donation from saudi arabia as an elaborate but weak application not job and his lawyers say they will appeal against the verdict a process that could take years this is. d definitely not the end of the world. Because theres a process of appeal. We hope that we would be successful that. There are outside Court Supporters greeted the verdict with anger and disbelief but there was also optimism elsewhere Civil Society groups and opposition politicians have fought for years to bring the Corruption Scandal to light. Among the majority of. The mind of the majority of malaysians. Change and. When. Leaders reputation and they were. That 30 could strengthen the credibility of Prime Minister yassin who took power in february but it may also weaken his coalition that relies on object party the biggest block in the alliance but slim parliamentary majority. Still has Strong Political influence despite no longer leading the United Malays National organization or some analysts say tuesdays conviction could strengthen the prosecutions case in other trials places dozens of additional charges including charges over the alleged laundering of 550000000. 00 from one and being. One analyst cautioned its too early to predict not tips political demise. But for now a leader who once seemed untouchable has been held to account for his actions lawrence louis aljazeera. Ever himself is the executive director of the deca center for Opinion Research he joins us now live from kuala lumpur good to have you with us so of course the big question now is how. Will react to this verdict could it withdraw from the governing coalition and bring down the government. Or there is when its been speculation in terms of how. Analyze within these arent these. Are these very i mean yes some people that i know of the verdict itself comes as a surprise the high degree of well the 12 years as well as the last on the 7 charges so i think there is definitely going to be some attempt to influence the law of armed or not be an effective beechen in the Coalition Government however not everybody is on his team. There are Leaders Within his party richfield that the are to move on and put this in the past so that the pikey can refresh itself and vote this in the context of a possible action what about the opposition what opportunities as the situation provide for them what will it do now. Hello can you hear me i was asking about the opposition and what it will do now. No i dont think. Our guest can hear us well try to come back to that a little later lets turn our attention now to the Global Pandemic as the number of cases continues to rise governments are divided on how to respond germany is warning its citizens against travel to parts of spain that have reported a high number of infections the u. K. s already imposed a 2 week quarantine on anyone returning from spain a move that the Spanish Government calls disproportionate deltas the mostly i wonder if you some of the good we are at this moment talking to the british authorities to try to make them reconsider a measure that in our view is unsuitable particularly if we keep the epidemiological data of the spanish territory and in particular certain tourist destinations like for example the canary in the bay lyric islands developed c. A and dilutes in regions which i insist have a total accumulated level of virus that is lower than whats being registered in the u. K. In epidemiological terms it is safer to be in these regions than in the u. K. And lebanon is imposing a 2 week lockdown from thursday after a sharp rise in infections and deaths there Health Officials are warning that hospitals could become overwhelmed but after months of lockdown in chile its begun to lift restrictions in parts of the capital santiago but the region remains the most affected by the pandemic authorities in neighboring peru have released a study that says that one in 4 people in the capital lima may have been infected we have 2 live reports for you this hour well go live to what Dominick Cain whos in berlin in just a few moments but well start with our latin america editor they see a new man whos in the santiago in chile you see it why are authorities there lifting measures now are they confident the risk of infection has fallen far enough. Hello adrian one thing is what the Authorities Say and another thing is what the statistics are showing and and it is quite concerning i spoke to an everyday meola just just a short while ago was this that this is actually a potential disaster waiting to happen but let me tell you show you 1st what it is that authorities are doing to try and on this 1st day of the lifting of the easing of the of the quarantine. But only in this area one of 7 municipalities where now you can see people are Walking Around for the 1st time in 4 months and here on the streets its a kind of a mixture between a we board and a chessboard everything is marked so that people walk on the right side of the street so that they wont get anywhere near each other thats the idea of left and right well see just how disciplined people are eventually and just over here people are about to quit. It to were going to ask our cameraman to pan over there are about to close to cross the street and there are these little. Marks on the road so that people will not get too close to each other as they wait to put the traffic light to change this and many other measures that they are taking are supposed to enforce social distancing but weve already seen that in markets in many other parts of the of the city that is not going to happen in the worst part yet is that while this area where we work and we live has is opening all the shops the people that work here actually come from areas that are still under lockdown so obviously the virus is going to spread from one part of the city to the other and thats exactly what the epidemiology just tell us is going to happen and its going to happen soon hospitals and infection rates are still extremely high in this country the World Health Organization recommends that the confinement begin only when theres less than 5 percent Positivity Rate in the testing and that is not the case here its over 10 still. So obviously the reason people are sick of being locked up and also the economy avian what about the situation in neighboring peru where Authorities Say this year that as many as one in 4 people in lima may have been infected with the virus. Exactly and it peru now has the very unhappy record of being a country with the highest death toll per 1000000 inhabitants in all of the americas and its a very very high infection rate to the same as in mexico which has at least double the population and the reason is exactly because they started to 2 d. Confined to school and that is certainly what is expected telling us so its a very high contagion rate i think the government has decided theres not much they can do about it because 75 percent of the population works in the Informal Sector they say they cant stay home anymore they cant afford it they will either starve to death or theyd rather take rather their there are risks there with the with the virus than with starvation that seems to be the thing they say over and over again but still were seeing the hospital to overflowing and the cemeteries as well a very very serious situation in neighboring through indeed aljazeera as latin america at its alysia newman reporting live from santiago chile many thanks indeed to see lets go then to berlin our series Dominick Cain is there for us dominick so weve got this raw between the u. K. And spain over the fact that the u. K. Has imposed quarantine on anyone traveling to the u. K. From spain now germany is advising its citizens to avoid certain regions in spain. Yes 3 specific regions in spain adrian that the German Government believes its citizens should not be visiting and the point behind this its gone cut the union are vital they say that the situation the coronavirus situation is in in those regions is such that it isnt it advisable for its citizens to go there but the point is you got to see this through the prism of whats been happening in german ministerial circles over the course of the last few days also because there has been a ratcheting up of concern regarding potential 2nd waves of coronavirus in germany brought back here so the fear goes by german citizens and german residents whove gone on holiday to certain areas that have become high risk areas and then bring it back with singly thats why yesterday we saw the Health Minister on the federal Health Minister that is deciding that from next week the coronavirus testing that had been taking place in 3 airports until that point voluntarily will that will now be mandatory so youve got to view whats happening today through that prism theres clearly a concern high level federally and also in the states of germany about the possibility of coronavirus coming back and brought back to germany by citizens whove been on holiday elsewhere in europe meanwhile germany itself fighting a rise in the number of infections just how how many are there in the country at the moment. Well the narrative from germany over the course of this pandemic has been that by having wide scale testing and an ample sufficiency of bed space to treat coronavirus patients presented with extreme symptoms that the germans be unable to keep a lid on the outbreak that on the pandemic and certainly that has been the case over the course of the past few months but in the course of the past few weeks there have been outbreaks isolated outbreaks in different parts of the country often associated with Meat Processing plants but its not just in those places that weve seen certain cases happening weve seen certain localized quarantines and that sort of thing the man whos in charge of the agency empowered to collate the data relating to covert 900. 00 number of cases the reproduction rate and that sort of thing lots of you know from the robert cock institute its become a bit a regular fixture seeing his News Conferences over the course of the pandemic with his latest advice to people but he gave a News Conference earlier today and had some troubling thoughts for the german population this is what he had to say. You know its no give us a trying to school one of you with the latest results so that people consider the coronavirus to be a low risk them before also the acceptance of measures such as social distancing has decreased at this point i would once again like to be very clear we ourselves are largely responsible for determining how the disease will develop in germany please help yourselves all of you continue to respect the rules you. One final thought adrian is the political aspect thats going on right now that informs how we should see and perceive the decisions taking place in berlin and elsewhere the man in charge of bavaria the Prime Minister there marcus is a very important person in german politics because many people on the conservative right see him as a potential chancellor candidate to replace anger machall when the general election takes place in september of next year hes the one whos been really arguing for people to be more aware of the potential for a 2nd wave hes the one who is really driving the move towards mandatory testing for coronavirus in airports where people who come from risk areas would be returning he today after a meeting of his own cabinet in bavaria is has said that he wants very soon to implement mandatory testing for corona virus not just in airports but also train stations and also at motorway areas which obviously all that refers to the austrian border so far every time this week that he said something where he wants something to happen at a federal level it has happened thats the political perspective thats going on in german politics right now aljazeera start a cane reporting live from berlin dominic many thanks a spanish Tourism Association says that the u. K. Is quarantined could cost the sector 11700000000. 00 in lost revenue of 0 smart at 0 as in barcelona with more on the economic fallout. These decision has a huge impact in the Tourism Sector that represents a 12 percent of the spanish economy the situation is quite critical we see here in barcelona where we are right now the beaches are we empty bars there are no queues to to to visit the cathedral in the middle of the of the city no cute at all there was we were talking to the people at the cathedral saying that an ordinary day you would reduce to 660 people 60 visitors a year the same dates we are they will have 1000 so the situation is quite critical we know that the government is negotiation and pushing very hard especially to brand the idea that spain is a save the estimation that weve got the corner of ours under control that these are only isolated branches or clusters that are completely under control as we heard last night from Prime Minister presented in this Television Interview he insisted that spain is a safe destination and this comes up why. Do you k. Join this 150 countries that have imposed limitations under strict travelers coming to our country all the government is aligned in this in this in this sense and saying that this being here is safer than being for example in the queue in the u. K. And france a lockdown is being imposed in lebanon during the upcoming. Holiday and thats expected to make life difficult for many people doc to say that hospitals will be quickly overwhelmed if the rise in infections isnt managed right away ill just heroes in the heart of reports from beirut. The number of daily infections in lebanon is now into 3 digits official say the corona virus has spread across the country there reimposing restrictions less than a months after the country and its only public airport reopened the numbers may be low when compared to other countries but this is a nation of only 6000000 people including a 1000000 refugees where they Health Care System is already in crisis private hospitals have started to turn away patients they make up 85 percent of the Health Sector and they are owed 1300000000. 00 by the government a law that lists the Health Sector is passing through a critical crisis that has been going on for 2 years we are crying for help the Health Sector is taking its last breath 10 days ago our hospital stopped receiving noncritical cases. Staff are also being fired the countrys leading medical facility the American University hospital laid off nearly 900 and administrators citing what it called the disastrous state of the economy since november up to 40 percent of lebanon 9000 nurses have lost their jobs what is happening is very serious and its going to affect drastically they had them in lebanon if we dont have enough nurses there the number of patients who are currently at the hospital will be much higher burden or us hospitals funded by the public and left underfunded and ill equipped by successive governments for 3 decades are not just at the forefront of the battle against coronavirus what we have seen is with the economic crisis more and more patients cannot afford the private sector anymore and they are heading towards the Public Sector importing equipment and medicine is becoming harder and more expensive because of the sharp devaluation of the local currency and a lack of u. S. Dollars in circulation. The surge in corona virus cases couldnt have come at a more difficult time levanon is close to bankruptcy because of years of corruption and the