A street in many after more mass protests and arrests. Military leaders who are behind a coup in mali are given a deadline to pick a transitional president. Call it playing football with judeans. Fighting extradition we could leaks founder Julian Assange refuses a u. S. Request to have him extradited to face trial on espionage charges. With the sports news including the return of illegal messi he doesnt want to play but hes back in training with boss of the club blocked. Welcome to the news hour saudi arabia has overturned the death sentence of 5 people involved in the murder of journalist. Theyve been given 20 years in prison instead 3 others have been given sentences ranging from 7 to 10 years and the u. N. Expert who investigated the killing says the verdicts are a parody of justice alexy obrien begins our coverage. The saudi hit squad accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was caught on camera landing in turkey and entering the kingdoms consulate in istanbul thats where a prominent and well connected critic of Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin selman was interrogated killed and dismembered but while 21. 00 men were detained by saudi arabia over his murder and 11 went on trial much of what happened in the courtroom remains a mystery the trial was done in secret and close trial that there was no International Observers in the hands of the victims or the accused were not published. And theres no more. Appeal possible so the nature of the evidence although you know every technical part of the trial almost has been questioned by. Internationally accepted judicial standards last year 5 of them were given the Death Penalty for the killing but thats been kept to 20 years in prison 3 others have been given sentences of saving to teen years and will say is calling a fast i think. The whole verdict seems to me to have been manipulated and i way they used of course they get behind a fig leaf according to practice Legal Practice in saudi arabia and the family has the right to commute any sentence and the family has issued such a flourish and most probably under duress i dont think it was done really knowing the family. Knowing a man so i was surprised by their 2 official gee sounds met the saudi king and crown prince in the weeks after they found his killing the cia and other intelligence agencies have said theres a direct link between the crown prince and the murder the case caused worldwide outrage and tarnished mohammed bin sahlins reputation but several of those in the hit squad coming from. Then his in a circle though he denies involvement the u. N. Experts who investigated is murder said in a series of tweets the saudi prosecutor performed one will act today in this parody of justice but these verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy she went on to say that crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon remained well protected against any meaningful scrutiny in his country and that the verdicts cant be allowed to whitewash what happened the saudi Prosecutor Says this causes the case both privately and publicly many though say justice for his shoghi has not been served brian al jazeera. The European Union has condemned the belorussian government for what it calls repression of the people after the disappearance of 3 opposition activists Maria Cardona scovel who spoken at many major rallies is missing after being taken away in a van by an identified people shes been a Campaign Manager for opposition politicians and a vocal supporter of taken our sky was an exile in lithuania this is completely unacceptable to you it was very very clear in our statements that to be considered the actions of the authorities in belarus unacceptable we are deeply concerned about the continued repression and intimidation of the population by unexplained our wrists very often arbitrarily our roasts our wrists of our wrists which are motivated politically this is unacceptable we call on all people who have been detained based on political reasons and arbitrarily to be deterred to be released immediately Bernard Smith is monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania. Maria kolesnik over was one of the last remaining main opposition activists still at liberty it seems until earlier on monday when witnesses witnesses described seeing her being bundled into a van by masked man she dropped her phone they say and skulk woman was picked up by one of these men as they drugged her off and drove away now maria tell us nick over knew the risks youve spoken of the risks of what would happen by standing above the crowd and speaking out against. His decision to declare victory and the oldest 9 to spew to elections she herself formed with colleagues at Political Party only last week called together to help push for those new elections so it will come as no surprise really perhaps to her and her friends that she seems to have been taken out of circulation for the moment leanest that could be serious he said that the waiting is foreign minister here in the us he has said that what is happening is that the outgoing leadership in belarus us how describes the bush and his government is cynically eliminating the opposition warm by warm and he says what is happening is reminiscent of the stalinist secret police erotica. Opposition leader who has campaigned alongside maria khana scovel she says its a typical tactic of lucas incas regime to try and intimidate leaders there is no information hopefully she was detained for a couple of hours because in our country in belarus you know its all can normally its not normal but in a good sense but its normal when the people get. Without any explanations so hopefully she will be released as soon as possible that was carried away about her in belarus an entire nation nick a meter. If you see and the leaders that we see the need theres everywhere now in the streets in the students in the universities in the factories in the plant plants look us encouraging works this way. Every time they see a leader and they would like to isolate this is the uniform of the people from the nation and this is so called as i said its normal in bill of rights now but hopefully it will question will not be able to do the 9500000 people over a bill it was because this simply it will not be any space in the prisons but unfortunately this is how does it look as increasing as work among the protesters will never give up as you see has been almost one month since their peaceful protests those protests started and we believe for the similar question is the better for the entire country for International Community and to my opinion that we will never give up the nation will never give up because he is no like there is no another way for the lot of us we want another president who want to be your tree elections and we want all political on the political detainees to be released since passed bill so we will fight until the day and we believe the billers and the leaves the russians the racial will never allow any troops on the ability border or on dollars to and said look well find a until the day and its always i refer to the peaceful protests a 4th of the Peaceful Demonstrations and that we will fight until the question they were sent to look us into gives ups gives up his foreign of the costs a queer people do not support the question of any longer he has not more than 50 percent of the votes no britains foreign minister has summoned russias ambassador to the u. K. Over the poisoning of the Opposition LeaderAlexei Navalny tony called it an acceptable that a banned chemical weapon had been used in felony has been removed from a medically induced coma doctors in berlin where hes being treated say hes been responsive german experts say he was poisoned with a nerve agent before a domestic flight and russia last month. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including a 6 month harrowing journey at sea ends for nearly 300. 00 roping refugees. An inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing began this survivors are demanding to know if it could have been prevented in sport with believe well hear what Novak Djokovic said after being kicked out of the u. S. Open. But 1st military leaders who carried out a coup in mali have a week to pick a transitional president and Prime Minister west African Leaders said that deadline just a short while ago the 15 nation regional bloc echo us is pressuring the military leaders to hand over power its a civilian rule the block has imposed sanctions on mali and closed its borders the military rulers who overthrew president. Say they will step down after a transition periods so if we take a closer look at what happened in mali after months of protests led by opposition groups soldiers seize power on august 18th and for somalis president. To resign he was detained for 10 days before being released to get medical treatment his advisers say hes an. West African Leaders initially called to be restored to office but has since dropped that demand and are now calling for a prompt transition to civilian rule. Military leaders have pledged to give up power after a transition period and are now in talks with opposition groups lets get an update swith joining us from the nigerian capital and the question is whether the military leaders will be able to meet that deadline just set by ecowas. Its hard to say at the moment for for the past 3 days theyve been meeting various Interest Groups in mali the opposition Business CommunityCivil Society organizations and theyve expanded that consultation to reach all nooks and crannies of money so that they can have a Wider Perspective on why the inclusion of mali and people what is not clear is whether they can achieve that if the early days of the proposed talks is anything to go by it will be difficult for the money in order for to reach an agreement that is acceptable to a course in the next few days to set up a Transitional Government that but again if both sides i mean the military on 100. 00 Civil Society organizations and other Interest Groups on in mali on the other hand made substantial concessions then probably some kind of an agreement can be reached however it remains to be seen whether they will meet the tough conditions set by course early on that the transition should not last more than 12 months and that a civilian must be both Prime Minister and president of a Transitional Government in mali so thats the situation right now and negotiations we year are continuing between the military of all of us and various Interest Groups in mali heres the thing to echo us has already imposed sanctions on mali and its close the borders so what more can it practically do to pressure the military is there a sense that perhaps its played all its cards. Its beginning to look like that this is a coverage where the economies of various countries are in a bad shape and a lot of people traders can take substantial risks to cross the border despite these tensions to trade with. Trade Business Partners across the border in mali money mill is a landlocked country surrounded by many countries in the region that have access to the Atlantic Ocean if the west African Regional group is to enforce these sanctions suspension lee and to make a credible impact on mali and its economy to pressure the military leadership that it will also apart from the cooperation of its member state it will also need the support and cooperation of mauritania and algeria which have access to the sea so. West african countries ready to do that already weve seen the course sort of watering down some of these sanctions allowing fuel to continue to go into mali and medical supplies as well as a food to go into mali basically what it means that if they have been stopped from going into mali can fuel internal revolt and push the military hardware but thats what the course of been been doing so the only days of the sanctions regime all right my dreams thank you for that reporting from the. Guineas leading Opposition Leader. Who has announced plans to run in next months president ial election the former Prime Minister says he wants to stop president alpha conde from winning a 3rd term 82 year old conde is approaching the end of what should have been his 2nd and final term but hes running again after pushing through changes to the constitution. Nearly 300 rominger refugees have been rescued from a beach in indonesia after drifting it seemed for 6 months at least 30 people died on the journey from bangladesh those who survived have been moved to a temporary shelter but its not clear if theyll be allowed to stay in indonesia just a washington reports in jakarta. After 7 months at sea these children are exhausted and traumatized they survived a dangerous journey now though safe in the news in province of answering nearly 300. 00 or hindu refugees disembarked in indonesia but at least those who died on the long trip from bangladesh. Are still fortunately we came to indonesia and indonesian people are really helpful towards us local authorities a working with the uns Refugee Agency to provide support including medical care. That. I couldnt stretch my legs when i slept we were just sitting so it affected our legs so much that we almost got paralyzed some of the group told al jazeera they were trying to get to malaysia knows him to move out of one of the i have my sisters in the camps so i wanted to go to malaysia to earn money to support them ive come here from the camps of bangladesh. They came ashore at beaches along a chinese coast overnight huddled together in darkness not knowing what would happen next hours later they were moved to a temporary shelter. Hundreds of thousands of for him to have fled from land where they face violence and persecution to bangladesh from then many tried to reach Southeast Asian countries by boat to escape poverty in crowded refugee camps Community Groups are trying their best to help with food and other essentials like a house but i know they said they were from bangladesh and going to malaysia but the boat became broken so they stranded and akshay actually is welcomed with open arms. As they get Health Checks and say its not clear if theyll be allowed to stay here in indonesia thats enough i think that theyll be kept here for the time being and tents and in the building the u. N. H. C. R. And government will register each of them. Many of those we spoke to have made the same plane of the english out of it if the indonesian government allow us to study we will stay and if they dont allow us then maybe america australia or canada might take us they desperately hoping they can make a new home for themselves wherever theyre accepted just go washington down to 0 jakarta. John quigley is a human rights specialist focusing on the rohingya and hes urging the indonesian government to offer the refugees protection. Many were here refugees have been in bangladesh for you know 3 years now since the genocidal attacks in chelton 17 and theres severe restrictions on their everyday lives are refugees in bangladesh are not granted education theyre not able to freely move about theyre not allowed to assemble or speak against the government so many of them have decided to try to seek better lives in malaysia and indonesia this boat of course was at sea for nearly 6 months and tragically an estimated 30 people died at sea this is something that should have never happened in the 1st place. Governments in Southeast Asia have been awful actually i dont allow ng working or refugee boats to disembark on their shores sometimes governments in this region have pushed refuse to the boat back out to sea under International Law that is considered reform and means that youre pushing boats or pushing people back to places where they could die or experience more persecution and this goes against all International Humanitarian law so places like malaysia have pushed boat back to thailand has also pushed both boats back in the path this already is in in indonesia and in i say right now should after the 2 week cove in 1919 they should not detain refugees in Immigration Detention Centers they should not prosecute them for entering the country without passports they should grant them access to livelihood ways to work in the Country Access to units yard protective status and case workers a lot of the working the refugees that disembark the notch a also had a lot of medical conditions they should be allowed to go to the hospital and looked after refugees in indonesia do not always experience that kind of treatment weve documented situations where refugees are extorted by police and are held indefinitely in Immigration Detention Centers so the indonesian government to protect refugees not persecute them or the main suspect in a nightclub attack in turkey 3 years ago has been sentenced to life in prison the cars are much to repose and it was a big national was handed the equivalent of 4 sea life sentences without parole 39 people were killed and dozens were injured when he opened fire at the rainout club in istanbul on new years eve much our riposte said he acted on behalf of ice so who claimed responsibility. 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