Says that it is safe for tourists after germany and the u. K. Advise citizens not to travel to parts of the country. Lebanon announces a 5 day lockdown just ahead of the holiday Coronavirus Infections that. In the last. 2. Logging on to learn if you can afford it but most nigerian children are missing out the schools stay shut. In the courts in malaysia has convicted former Prime Minister najib razak on a string of corruption 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 many linked to a scandal surrounding a state Investment Fund aljazeera Florence Louis reports from kuala lumpur. 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 foremost. City of state Investment Fund one empty beach yet that sums only a fraction of the 4 and a half 1000000000. 00 that u. S. And malaysian Authorities Say have been stolen from one and. The judge rejected defense that he had 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 given his lawyers say they will appeal against the verdict a process that could take years this is. Definitely not the end of the world. Because theres a process of appeal. And 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 here is. Justice is being. You know among the majority of malaysians even minor the majority of malaysians voted for change and no one in the case was. Wanting to be leaders reputation and they were bored. The verdict could strengthen the credibility of Prime Minister ghassan who took power in february but it may also weaken his coalition that relies on not just party the biggest block in the alliance but slim the 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 faces 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 to meits. System but for now a leader who once seemed untouchable has been held to account for his actions lawrence louis aljazeera kuala lumpur. Turning our attention now to the Global Pandemic spains Prime MinisterPedro Sanchez is pushing the u. K. To reconsider its decision to impose a 2 week quarantine on anyone travelling from his country infections are rising fast in some places like barcelona resorts like benetton on the eastern coast of reported far fewer cases sanchez says that this means there can be exemptions yelled at the mostly i wonder if you time at the court 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 the violence here 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. The spanish Tourism Association says the u. K. Quarantine could cost the sector 11700000000. 00 in lost revenue i was a serious matter arrow is in barcelona with the latest. 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 the words we were talking to the people at the cathedral saying that an ordinary day you would reduce 660 people 60 visitors a year the same dates we are they will have 1000 fold the situation is quite critical we know that the government is negotiation and pushing very hard especially to brand the idea that spain is to save this to nation that weve got the corner of ours under control that these are only isolated branches or as isolated 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. Well do u. K. Join this 150 countries that have imposed limitations under strict travelers coming to our country although 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. Germans are being warned by their government not to travel to parts of spain where there are high numbers of corona virus infections germany which is itself dealing with a steady rise in cases also wants to make covert 19 tests mandatory for travelers returning from high risk areas you know its not give. Us a School Interview 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 meanwhile after months of lockdown chile has begun to lift restrictions in parts of its 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 you see any of the reports. 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 m. P. Demi ologist 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 were in 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 do board and a chessboard everything is marked so the people walk on the right side of the street so that they wont get anywhere near each other thats the idea left and right well see just how disciplined people are eventually and just over here people are about to put to it 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 for 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. The United NationsSecurity Council is holding a closed session to discuss the conflict in yemen its the 2nd time that theyve met in person at u. N. Headquarters since 1000. 00 restrictions came into effect the council is concerned over a lack of diplomatic progress on the lovingly deteriorating Health Situation lets go live now to the u. N. In new york our diplomatic editor james bays is with us from there james whats the latest on this meeting. Agent its actually an open and a closed session and theyre at an open session right now they will have i think a more delicate discussion when they go shortly into closed session but even in the open session its clear that there is some very worrying trends in yemen right now worth reminding you that Martin Griffiths who is the special envoy of the u. N. The man whose job it is to try and bring peace to the troubled country spoke last the council a man then he talked of significant progress he says is that at the time peace was within close reach now 2 months on and his picture is certainly not as rosies as theres a real risk these negotiations will slip away and yemen will enter a new phase or prolonged escalation thats the political situation if you look at the humanitarian assessment im afraid its equally grim we heard from our local whos the undersecretary general of the u. N. In charge of humanitarian affairs and he said the humanitarian situation in yemen has never been worse at any point in the war people are finding it very hard to find food theres a risk of a full scale famine in the country coated 19 cases are increasing there are cases of cholera and theres also that oil tanker in the port of data that needs urgent repair and yet so the engineers have managed to get to it they havent got her missions to get to it and there is the risk of that oil tanker spilling its cargo over a 1000000 barrels of oil would end up in the red sea a very grim picture in yemen and its clear from listening to the ambassadors theyre getting increasingly frustrated about the lack of political progress because youre not going to solve any of these other things unless you get the political process started again our diplomatic as the james bay is live at the u. N. In new york james many thanks. Thousands of people in yemen could be dying from undetected cases of cholera because covert 19 is overwhelmed Health Facilities there thats the latest assessment from oxfam which says that many are scared to seek treatment for fear of contracting corona virus according to the u. K. Based charity the start of the rainy season next month could worsen the cholera outbreak more than 100000. 00 suspected cases were recorded in the 1st 3 months of the year afghanistans government and the taliban have agreed to observe a 3 day truce from friday during the holiday cease fire plan follows a surge in violence of recent weeks the taliban has indicated that is prepared to hold talks with the government after 8 provided a prisoner swap is completed president ashraf ghani has hinted that the talks could begin as early as next week a weather update next here on out to 0 then defending the Justice Department the u. S. Attorney general is facing questions over in congress over the treatment of protesters. 3000000000 animals killed or displaced scientists give it alarming cesspits the strain is bush finds. Hello there still some very heavy rain across the northeast of asia in particular japan has picked up some pretty heavy downpours the last 24 hours the cloud is still streaming across and it will be more as we go through wednesday the Korean Peninsula also seeing some heavy downpours. Lack of course into the central and southern areas of china as we head off into thursday the rains becoming heavy once again for the out towards the west so much as. Some heavy downpours and then again a scattering of those rain showers and thunderstorms further towards the east and the same across the Korean Peninsula also japan so the rain is not as heavy but of course still it will be a dry day temperature wise its not cool either 27. 00 in tokyo and the same across into seoul then across into south asia have seen some very heavy rain of course across areas to the north across bangladesh up into the pole but also weve seen some very heavy downpours into southern as a pakistan corruption but we have got to say this is streets and water people doing their best to still ask about it. Wednesday but the rains very heavy particularly through to protect pushing up the whole again east was into town the rains a little bit lighter through much of bangladesh but really becoming very widespread again across areas to the west and the south and by thursday very heavy rains into her russia so wet by with a high of 33. Rewind continue i can bring your people back to life im sorry with updates on the best about dizzier its documentary. From. These districts revisiting alfreds prepress. And the money they did it all we know from the public of whats happening in libraries or sites that have been some changes over the years you know rewind on aljazeera. Again this is aljazeera as for much of the main news this hour malaysias former Prime Minister najib razak has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption linked to a state Investment Capital but he wont go straight to jail the plans to appeal his conviction. Spain has reported more than 900. 00 new cases of the coronavirus on tuesday with the regions catalonia american and the dreaded worst hit it comes as several european nations rise against travel to the country. Chile has begun to lift restrictions in parts of the capital santiago after months of marked down with more than 4400000. 00 cases latin america remains the worst hit region in the world. U. S. Attorney general william barr is defending the trumpet ministrations response to the black lives matter protests hes testifying in front of a Congressional Committee one of the questions hes answering is about the deployment of federal officers to end racism demonstrations lets go live now to our series alan fischer whos following the hearing and joins us from capitol hill among other things allan this panel is trying to examine whether bars in appropriately politicize the department of justice. Theres a lot of groans to cover not least because this is the 1st time that william has given evidence to host Judiciary Committee which is responsible for oversight since he took office if you think about the protests that were seeing in portland if you think about the demonstrations we saw across the country driven by but lives matter and the allegations of systemic and institutional racism in the United States and then you throw into the mix the prosecutions against people who have been close to donald trump you see that there is a lot of going to cover and not a great deal of time certainly jerry nadler who is the democratic chair of the committee meeting. Very clear from the very start that this wasnt going to be a meeting of minds when he described attorney general barr as the washed man at the watch movement to be attorney general for his part well bill barr said that at the moment when theyre seeing protests in portland where they had federal officers on the street against the. Construction of many lawmakers in portland it has to be said but he is suggesting that the fact that they are attacking a federal courthouse and by extension attacking federal officers then that this is an attack on the United States and he made the plea to the committee for elected representatives to speak out about violence where ever the see it particularly in this context no when it came to the issue of roger stone and Michael Flynn now you remember them because roger stone was a friend of Donald Trumps he was convicted by a court he was recommended to sever a long sentence bill bar thing got involved in that case and managed to reduce the sentence which donald trump then commuted as an act of clemency and theres also Michael Flynn who is the National Security advisor who pled guilty to charges of lying to the f. B. I. But then william barr and his department of justice decided to withdraw the charges against Michael Flynn the william barr defended the action in both of those cases he said look friends of the president should not get special treatment what i did was restore the rule of law to the department of justice yes friends of donald trump should not get special treatment but they should not be punished as well so the questioning continues to be frosty that was on the republican side tend to support william barr those on the democratic side have a lot of questions to ask him one very important point was asked by jerry nadler he said to william barr have you been involved in discussions with donald trump about using federal officers so he can use these in reelection adverse william barr said i dont talk about my conversations with the president i was there as alan fischer reporting live from washington alan many thanks. Lebanon is reimposing lockdown measures after assad in corona virus infections and deaths it will begin on thursday and last for 5 days into the. Day businesses will then resume for only 2 days on tuesday before returning to 5 more days of lockdown at least 132 new cases and 8 deaths have been reported over the past 24 hours places of worship night club Sports Events popular markets will close so lockdown being imposed during the upcoming holiday will probably be difficult for many in lebanon doctors though say that hospitals will be quickly overwhelmed if the rise in infections isnt managed right away aljaze