Sodomy vic conviction sodomy conviction against a key leader. The federal court rejected abrahams abeal of the conviction and upheld the prison sentence. He was accused of sodomizing a former political aide. The conviction takes the 67yearold out of contention for election ss for foreseeable future. One human rights activist call it a grim day for has and democracy in asia. Anwar has always denied charges. We spoke with him on the phone. A chance to redeem themselves. To right wrongs of the past but chose instead to stay on the back side and drowned in morals and scruples in subterfuge. You believe the decision by the court is politically motivated, its been made in the interests of the ruling party so they can stay the ruling party . Clearly. Minutes after the decision was announced, the office came out with very elaborate statement. Well coordinated and orchestrated between the Prime Ministers Office and the federal court. Reporter are you ready to go prison . Theres a price i have to pay. I think malaysians and all democrat will not be silenced. I will continue to fight for freedom and justice. And i will never surrender. Reporter sir many group have pretty credit sighed your prosecution, human rights criticized your prosecution, human rights among them. Is there anything we can do to bring froesh malaysias government . Of course because they have not observed the basic rules. There was not evidence. There was clearly there was clearly a fabrication. There was no consideration given to the argument by my counsel. They ignored the gaps the conditions. They ignore all our facts. They concocted, fabricated the case. How angry now are your supporters . Supporters . Well im inside the court. I can hear the murmurings. And we believe in rule of law and democracy, to allow it to continue, to imprison them naturally it should be expected that it can be breached. Are you concerned they may take violence to the streets and this,en in this could end in secure clashes . I all peaceful methods. Weve seen disasters particularly affecting muslim world. I do not support violence. The support is punctuated by institutions and those in power, so they must be they muff exercise restraint on both parts. But malaysians have the right to express themselves. Anwar abraham talking earlier with john vause. For more well check in with Andrew Steven ins in next halfhour. The latest on isis. The terror group has released another propaganda video, this time featuring british hostage john cantley. He appears as a reporter describing Battle Damage and daily life in the syrian city of aleppo. Cannily has shown up in earlier isis videos but he calls this the last film in the series quote. Thats raised concerns. Meanwhile, the parents of an american aid worker obtained by isis are asking the mill tan group to contact them directly. Isis says 26yearold Kayla Mueller died in a Jordanian Air strike. But theres been no real proof that thats actually the case. Muellers family is Still Holding out hope. Kyung lah has more on the agonizing wait. He told me the capture had happened three or four days earlier. Reporter the man hes talking about, Kayla Muellers father. Had been three to four days since she was captured in 2014. The threat in isis talk about or release her name, and they would execute her. Her father, in a fog of fear and pain heard secretary of state ken bennett on the radio. He was toesdy desperate and didnt know what to do and turned to me because i happen to be a few blocks away on the the radio as he was driving home. Reporter bennett, as arizonas secretary of state, carries no International Diplomatic pull. But he does have friends in power. Bennett immediately connected muellers father with senator john mccain and representative paul gosar on their cells, and the diplomatic race was on to save Kayla Mueller. The muellers suffering an excruciating silence speaking to virtually no one about kayla. Todd geiler is a longtime family friend. Its not difficult to keep a secret like this when demands of this caliber are being made. When you look across your breakfast table and theres an empty chair. Reporter for nine millions deafening silence nine months deafening silence. Then isis sends proof of life confirmation. In july, a Daring Rescue tampa by u. S. Forces to save journalist james foley. It fails, but the military finds stranz strands of hair believed to be muellers. On july 12th isis announces it will kill kayla in 30 days unless the muellers pay nearly 7 million in ransom. The 30 days pass and again, silence. No word until this isis claim on friday that Kayla Mueller was killed in this building. The mulers still afraid to say the wrong thing remain home behind police cars still suffering alone in a hell few can ever imagine. They released a Public Statement to isis to reach out to them privately and directly. I think its one of the amazing pars of the story that out of their love for their daughter theyve had to almost bear this alone. And i dont know how they as a family have that. Reporter alone no longer prescott arizona, now knows and praise. We love you, and we pray for you every day. We hope to get you back. Reporter heres the amazing thing last summer when that ransom democratand was made approximately according to a family spokesman, about 100 people may have known this was happening to Kayla Mueller. News organizations around the world knew her name. Yet still the information did not get out. All of this is credited to the parents who became so personally involved trying to protect their child. Cnn, prescott arizona. Theres another american hostage in syria and another family in anguish. Freelance journalist austin tyce went missing in syria in 2012. Earlier, erin burnett spoke with his family. They said each knowing what they know now they wouldnt have stop him from going. I know that you are so proud of him. If you could turn back the clock, would you tell him dont go . Go . You know we raised our children to really listen for their particular call and their place, and whenever you hear that call you cant fight them for following it. Hes on his path. Hes on his path. We all pray that the path will lead back to you safely. If austin or his captors ever have the tune to see this interview, is there anything you would. To tell them, to tell him . We always remind austin how much we love him and how much we miss him. And we want his captors to engage in dialogue and let us know what needs to be done to get austin safely home as soon as possible. Yeah. And we also want him to know just how many people are wishing him safety and a safe return, and next week in a campaign that were launching with reporters without borders, well be asking the American People to encourage with us to encourage the u. S. Government and administration to do everything they can to bring him home safely. Lets hope that happens. Its just extraordinary to see parents so poised and stoic in the face of such a nightmare. Exactly. Just hike the other hostages parents, as well having to do that privately, as well and knowing that their children, the same with the japanese hostages all of these people in these places. To be there, want to help people how can you tell them not to go and follow their heres . Such a horrible situation oompt their hearts . Such a horrible situation. And people in northeastern part of the u. S. Will be waking up 2 10 in the morning now but theyll be waking up to another storm the third in as many weeks. The governor says Mother Nature makes the rules as his state deals with recordbreaking snow totals. Miguel marquez has been in the elements and shows when conditions are like. Reporter we are stomach metaphorically and literal stuck metaphorically and literally. The end of the road here. If there were any light, wed be able to see boston on other side of quincy bay. This is a snowdrift. The atlantic there, quincy bay over there. The winds whipping across there. Incredible. Almost bigger than miguel marquez. Our meteorologist, Pedram Javaheri joins us now. More of that apparently on the way. Yeah. Another round of it five days or so potentially four to five days away. And we see upaward of another foot come down. This is incredible because weve set records, 10 20 40day snowfall record in those intervals so far this season. Incredible. Take a look at this. The governor of massachusetts saying that enough snow has been removed from the state that could fill up gillette stadium, home of the super bowl champion new England Patriots 90 times over. Incredible when you think about how much snow has come down. And the top five biggest snowstorms in roared history for the city of boston. Nearly 300 smears in 1995. This particular centimeters in 1995. This particular event from 2014 through the beginning portion of 2015 about 77 inches has come down which would put it top ten. Notice in the next seven days one of the american models says more than ten inches, come down moving to the top five scale. If the european model verifies 97 inch would be the toesd,tal, putting it in the top few. Snow totals around massachusetts, 26 inches across parts of the area. Bostons 22 inches is now the eighth biggest thunderstorms in boston history. Remember biggest snowstorm in boston history. A lot of numbers, but there goes what is left of this latest historic snowstorm. Generally speaking it is beginning to taper off around the Early Morning into eastern massachusetts. The concern is whats in the forecast for thursday into friday. A potential near easter builds off the eastern seaboard. Thats where we could have a wintry mess. Hard to tell how much will come down. Two to four in new york city. Stockton eight around boston. The european the one thats been strong in accuracy is the american model for this stretch is putting down around a bulls eye of a foot over boston by friday morning, while new york city could get four to six inches. Over 140,000 hours of plowing has done done in boston. Nearly 60,000 tons of sally are moved, and 217,000 mile of roadways plowed in the city. From the earth to the moon 240,000 miles away. Nearly a lunar distance, but roads cleared for the city. You can imagine theyre tired of all the mess. Ridiculous moon of snow. And they to it every year. Not as much this apparently. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Still to come on cnn, as violence jess clays in Eastern Ukraine, force to reach a diplomatic solution made it to washington. Well bring you deals on a key meeting between the u. S. President and german chancellor. Justice for a rallying cry since photos of the badly beaten maid went on the north american. Now the young woman had her justice. Were live in hong kong. And later, as isis goes off to western recrews, an online guide book appears to reveal the steps needed to join the jihad. Well show it to you after this. The real question that needs to be asked is what is it that we can do that is impactful . What the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. It used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. Whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, thats what id like to do. 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His younger brother and three other men were also executed monday. An indonesian maid beaten starved, and imprisoned by her former employer has now been delivered justice. The housewife accused of torturing the young woman has been found guilty in hong kong. We have a statement from the tortured maid. This is a huge win. Human Rights Groups saying its a symbolic win for all Domestic Workers there. What did arianna have to say about what happened today . Reporter she has really provided a voice for the voiceless here on an issue many have been talking about for a long time. In a Church Basement she is addressing the media with support from Migrant WorkersRights Groups. She said simply, to my employers in hong kong i hope they will start treating migrant Domestic Workers as workers and human beings and stop treating us like slaves. Because in this case, that is exactly what she was treated like. A 22yearold coming from indonesia from a small village, looking for a better life taking up employment with a housewife and her family. She came back to hong kong to testify after she had left after investigators had visited her in the hospital. We saw orific images of her injuries. She came back to face her accuser. She talk about how she was punch talked about how she was punched in the month, all issed with a vacuum cleaner tube forced to sleep on the floor. The entire case hinged on her credibility. And the judge said definitively i am sure she is telling the truth. Her sorry, the employer here the defendant, she has had her bail revoked. Sentencing is going to happen later this month. And in an interesting sort of final moment in the courtroom, the judge ordered that she pay the wages to arianna that she is owed. She was never paid during her eight months of employment. Were looking at footage there was the employer found guilty of 18 of 20 charges. And you worn now you wonder now with the judge believing what this woman said being tortured the idea that this is systemic not just a single case where does arianna go from here and what about other Domestic Worker who now have a spotlight on what is a very person issue in many parts of the very important issue in many parts of the world . Reporter theres certainly hope among these groups that this case will provide some sort of momentum, awareness that this is an issue not only in hong kong but other places. Theyre pushing for specific legal change in hong kong. Some of the things theyre hoping to change capping the number of work hours. Right now theres also a requirement that Domestic Worker are forced to live with their employer. They want to eliminate that. There is also will a clause that means that says that if they lose their job or if theyre fired or if they quit they have two weeks to find a new job or else theyre deported. Its thought that may discourage those in bad situations or being abused from speaking up boy any means. Certainly hope and momentum and a voice for those who have had no voice before. And now bringing justice to a group of people who certainly deserve equal human rights. Reporting from hong kong past 3 20 in the afternoon there. We will take a short break now. Just ahead, an olympic champion involved in a fatal accident. Why it could be months before we know what caused the crash. The pm pain reliever. That dares to work all the way until. [birds chirping] the am. New aleve pm. Its the first to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. For pain relief that can last all the way until morning. New aleve pm, for a better am. At this point we want to get you to Eastern Ukraine. Theres a stronger push for a diplomatic solution to the crisis there. The European Union has delayed new sanctions against separatists and supporters until next week. German chancellor Angela Merkel met with u. S. President barack obama on monday. She opposes sending arms to ukrainian troops saying more weapons could escalate the conflict. She insists its too soon to give up on diplomacy. The situation has worsened on the ground. So now there is a possibility to try and bring about a ceasefire. And im absolutely confident that we will do this together. I, myself actually will not be able to live with not having made this attempt. And president obama says he is on the same page for now. Take a listen. If in fact diplomacy fails, ive asked my to team look at all options. What other means can we put in place to change mr. Putins calculus and the possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options being examined. I have not made a decision about that yet. Chancellor merkel is supposed to meet with the president s of russia ukraine, and fran on wednesday to try and reach a lasting ceasefire. Meanwhile, in ukraine, a strong explosion in the rebelheld city of donetsk monday ripped through what a city website calls a chemical plant. A ukrainian lawmaker said it was a Warehouse Holding rockets. A separatist leader accused ukraine of carrying out the attack. And you can see that nearby buildings were damaged. We can tell you that there were no casualties reported. For the latest on the push for diplomacy in Eastern Ukraine, we turn now cnns Erin Mclaughlin live in moscow. When the facetoface meetings take place in belarus wednesday with the leaders of russia, ukraine, germany, and france all working to try to find peace, whats the most thats expected out of these talks and where do things stand on the eve of these crucial meetings . Reporter well german chancellor Angela Merkel herself yesterday said that success in these talks is anything but assured. That said there does seem to be political will for some agreement out of the talks scheduled for minsk tomorrow. But with leaders on all sides saying that theres no alternative to a peaceful resolution