Welcome to the program saudi arabia has overturned the death sentence of 5 people convicted of the murder of judge of the journalist in turkey theyve been given 20 years in prison instead turkey said the sentencing fell short of expectations while the u. N. Expert who investigated the killing called it a parody of justice alexy obrian reports. 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 closed 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 only in 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 cut 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 declaration 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 made 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 murda the case caused worldwide outrage and tarnished mohammed bin sahlins reputation but several of those in the hit squad coming from. In his inner circle though he denies involvement the u. N. Experts who investigated murder in a series of tweets the saudi prosecutor performed one more 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 who has not been served brian al jazeera. Of an Opposition Leader is missing after being snatched off the streets by master men and taken away in a van all of this in the center of the capital minsk Maria Kolesnik of has played a prominent role in the weeks of demonstrations demanding the president s resignation shes one of the sorry women who joined forces before last months disputed president ial elections to challenge Alexander Lukashenko and she was the only one who was actually left invalid roofs police think of a was taken a day after a massive antigovernment demonstrations across the country during which the interior Ministry Says 633. 00 people were detained the government has banned the Mass Gatherings but that hasnt stopped the estimated crowds of more than 100000 marching through the streets of the capital witnesses report of another violent crackdown by Security Forces on sunday with hooded men in civilian clothes attacking protesters with batons while the European Union has condemned the arrest of kolesnik of and the other opposition protesters. 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 arrests very often arbitrarily arrests arrests of artists 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 well ben smith is monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania near 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 a masked man she dropped her phone they say in the stock 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 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 disputed elections she herself formed with colleagues of 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 outside strides in 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. The berlin hospital treating kremlin critic alex in a valley say that his condition has improved allowing doctors to take him out of an induced coma he was flown to germany last month after falling ill of domestic flight in russia german experts say tests show that he was poisoned with a nerve agent novacek a statement from the hospital said he is now responding to speech and they are trying to wean him off mechanical ventilation the u. K. Foreign minister has summoned the Russian Ambassador to the u. K. To express his concern over what happened to the novacek was used against the russian double agent sort of a script in the u. K. 2 years ago. When the valleys fellow opposition politician of sobel has released a video message calling for a criminal investigation in russia. See the only people into a coma in russia and hes a citizen of russia so the authorities should investigate and rational why you fell into and please and not just because Angela Merkel to montanus sanctions can be imposed because it was an attempt to kill a politician in russia it is very upsetting for our country that such obvious treaties need to be spoken aloud and repeated but i will repeat and to modern investigation takes place into the attempted murder of a public figure so we can officially named those who poisoned. India has overtaken brazil to become the country with the 2nd highest number of corona virus infections in the world its reported the Worlds Largest number of infections for nearly a month now more than 90000. 00 each of the last 2 days spain meanwhile has become the 1st western european country to pass half a 1000000 coronavirus cases spain saw a daily increase of more than 2400 cases the spied stringent measures on the face masks and social distancing being enforced in recent weeks. Americans have been celebrating the Labor Day Weekend this by the us being the country worst hit by covert 19 in california were cases of fallen over the past 2 weeks many flocked to the beach to escape a record breaking heat wave the state still has double the number of cases it had going into the memorial day long weekend in may than National Holiday was followed by a surge in corona virus cases. The labor day is also the traditional start of the u. S. President ial campaign and it sees President Donald Trump still trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the polls the Trump Campaign has been centered on law and order and how to recover from the economic damage done by the coronavirus while. Biden is focusing the election on trumps handling of the pandemic and rising unemployment and the president s worries are predicted to continue with the release of a tell all book by his former lawyer Michael Cohen on tuesday. While campaigning earlier in the swing state of pennsylvania joe biden said trumps claims about the possibility of a vaccine before election day undermining Public Confidence in a cure for. My friends are. One of the problems we. Think were. Already going to have really going to. Be. Going on the market probably. Jordan joins us live now from alexandria in virginia. We now have the official start of the Election Campaign tell us a little bit about what its looking like right now. Well depending on the polls that you have seen in the past week or so its either a statistical dead heat with joe biden the democratic opponent about 4 points ahead of donald trump the republican incumbent or biden has as much as an 11 point lead over the president at this stage of the campaign but the election is lost then 60 days away at this point and really the only result that matters is how American Voters cast their ballots on november 3rd that said this is a very competitive race and certainly you saw both the president ial candidates and their running mates out on the Campaign Field on this labor day trying to both excite their a base of support and trying to persuade and convince voters to cast a ballot for them and not for the other team on november 3rd. And rosalyn President Trump has had to do a little bit of damage limitation in the past few days 1st the atlantic magazine that is reporting that he called the u. S. War dead losers and suckers and now this pope by Michael Cohen his former lawyer which comes out tomorrow on tuesday and also looks to contain some damaging information. Thats right not only has the president had to try to deal with accusations from numerous sources confirmed by numerous news organizations that he has just spare lynched the service of members of the u. S. Military essentially calling them suckers and losers something which the president again denied on monday but now he has to continue contend with Michael Collins balkan in that book which is officially published on tuesday here in the us cohen says that not only was trump known for consistently making racist comments about africanamericans but that he also made similar comments about Nelson Mandela the Freedom Fighter and former 1st president of. South africa after apartheid something that tom might be quite offensive to those in that country and to what meyers of mandela worldwide it also apparently says that todd donald trump is not just an admirer of blood a mere pollutant but wanted to emulate him when he became president and that is certain to raise more concerns given that the involvement of russian government officials in the u. S. Campaign. Just stuart the vote one way or another is already a political issue this year Absalom Rosen join in with the latest on that from alexandria virginia roslyn thank you. To come in this half hour including fears that this could be the new normal in south korea calls for greater see the fences after the 2nd that major storm in a week. And that bad hair day protesters forced the closure of a pharmacy chain over ads that they claim were racist. Well i was looking rather wet sand at times when the across southern parts of australia got this long line of cloud outs of pushing right down through the pipe thats all making its way further east was ahead of that with season right warm weather in adelaide for example this system will push its way through and theyll be Something Like a 1011 degree drop in temperatures so 19 celsius the high in adelaide on shoes day off then some wetter weather making its way across victoria and eventually that will just take the edge of that 24 that we have in sydney for a choose days there are 19 is the cloud and rain sweeps same as we go on into where to stay fresh the weather coming back in behind have told the west it should be largely dry at least for a time rain will come through later on in the week weather also making its way into south out of the new zealand as we go on into wednesday and it will gradually continue to push its way further east which as we head towards the weekend meanwhile on places say because rain clearing away from the Korean Peninsula prices sky starting to push back into southern parts clear weather tucking in here r. O. Typhoon at Tropical Storm thats going to continue sweeping its way further north was weakening as it does so some heavy rain for the far north east of china but to the south. On mexicos busy roads there are those whove had a knock. Cyclists are taking to the streets. Last. Their objective to make the streets safer alternative cleaner forms of transportation but when it proved to be an uphill struggle for this group of activists over the wheel do you find that on aljazeera. In the. Back years a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of 8 people involved in the murder of journalist jean turkey last year 5 of them were sentenced to death for the killing but thats now been cut to 20 years in jail. In Opposition Leader is missing after being snatched off the street by mass the men in the center of minsk maria was one of 3 women who joined forces to challenge alexander the schenkel in last months disputed elections and a german hospital treating kremlin critic says his condition has improved a lot and doctors to take him out of any cobra german experts say tests show that he was poisoned with the nerve agent. Economists estimate the latin america is at risk of losing up to 45000000 jobs due to the ongoing Global Pandemic ecuador has been one of the hardest hit economies in the region with more than a 1000000 people in need of work and 5000000 other is fighting to keep unstable jobs thats a staggering 85 percent of the countrys workers as are latin american editor lucien human now reports. 3 years ago dorrans have been struggling to keep their heads above water in a troubled economy 8 months ago only 4 out of 10 people had full employment. Now with the pandemic the job market has collapsed. Susannah bias takes is a which she calls a depressing trip down memory lane this is where she used to run a modest but successful cathay with 4 employees. This was a bustling area of cater where people gathered on the weekends there were lots of tourists this was my coffee shop which i had to close i feel terrible sorry when i see all this all of us entrepreneurs who put our hopes and dreams and energy into this in order to live now were struggling just to survive. The few who are still open like the one it could only really dont know how much longer they can hang on the most gorgeous and working for this employer i know loads of people who are unemployed and who are forced to update their contracts and work for half or 80 percent less if theyre paid at all because of the community that is an astonishing 85 percent of ecuadorians are now either unemployed or in prepare is jobs like balo and food number 3 or less because of increases both lost their jobs as journalists and are trying to survive selling Blood Pressure meters soap and face masks they have 2 children miss one meant the most hopeless one of a 1000000 misses them as a family we need roughly 900. 00 for the house food and pension. Now i cant manage to even make 200 i dont know what well do. If we dont cant access credit because of its enormous foreign debt unlike in other latin american countries the government has continued paying creditors leaving almost nothing for emergency aid for the needy. Economist and there to accost that says its a structural problem. The parallelization of the productive apparatus the pandemic the drop in the consumption and the governments recess of economic policies have created an extremely dangerous cocktail which is reflected in the employment figures. And in a country where massive demonstrations over the withdrawal of fuel subsidies nearly brought down the government last year its not just the economy but the governability of ecuador thats now at stake. See a new man aljazeera the Korean Peninsula has been battered by its 2nd major storm in a week high for haitian that brought heavy rains and strong winds after hitting japans Southern Islands but has now been downgraded to a Tropical Storm from pa in south korea robin wright has more. Hi sharon came howling ashore pummeling this southeast corner of south korea the 2nd destructive typhoon within a matter of days this seafront restaurant was already extensively damaged by typhoon my sack last week the same family have been running it for 40 years and say theyve never experienced storms like these that papa had the words to the media about things are completely wrecked america lost i dont know where to begin life was already tough before this. Like typhoon my sac this typhoon 1st pounded the main Southern Japanese island of q shu with winds gusting up to 200 Kilometers Per Hour prompting an order for nearly 2000000. 00 people to evacuate their homes. On back to the Southern Islands of japan it lost some of its intensity but by the time it reached the Korean Peninsula it was still a powerful typhoon bringing destructive winds and torrential rain. Already drenched from successive typhoons and dont usually prolonged seasonal rains