Is fighting to survive. Hello and welcome to the program. Saudi arabia has overturned the death sentence of five people convicted of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in turkey. They been given 20 years of prison instead. Investigated who the killing called it a parody of justice. Accusedaudi death squad of killing journalists Jamal Khashoggi was caught on camera entering the consulate in istanbul. Khashoggi was interrogated, killed, and dismembered. All 21 men were detained by saudi arabia over the murder, much of what happened in the courtroom remains a mystery. Secret andl was a close trial. There were no international observers. The names of the accused were not published, and theres no more appeal possible. So the nature of the evidence and every technical part of the trial has been questioned by internationally accepted judicial standards. Five are given the Death Penalty but that has been cut to 20 years in prison. Three others have been given whatnces of 710 years in is being called a farce. I think the whole verdict seems to have been manipulated in a way. Iny hid behind a figley accordance with legal practice, and saudi arabia, the family has the right to commute any sentence and the family has icky issued such a declaration, most probably under duress. I dont think it was done freely, knowing the family. I was surprised by that. His sons met the saudi king and the crown prince after in the their followers after their fathers killing. Worldwideaused outrage and tarnished hum ben solomons reputation. He denies involvement. The experts who investigated the murder send a series of tweets, the prosecution perform one more act today in this parody of justice. Moralries no legal or legitimacy. She went on to say the crown prince remain well protected against any meaningful scrutiny in his country and that the verdicts cannot be allowed to whitewash what happen. The saudi prosecutor said it closes the case, both privately meaning justice for khashoggi has not been served. Belarusian Opposition Leader is missing after being snatched from the street by masked men and taken away in a van. All of this in the center of the capital, minsk. Rhea has played a prominent role in the weeks of demonstrations, demanding the president s resignation. She is one of the three women who join forces before last months disputed president ial elections to challenge Alexander Lukashenko and the only one who was actually left in belarus. He was she was taken day after massive antigovernment demonstrations across the country during which interior Ministry Said 633 people were detained. The government has banned Mass Gatherings but that hasnt stopped estimated crowds of more than 100,000 marching through the streets of the capital. Witnesses reported another violent crackdown by Security Forces on sunday with hooded men in civilian clothes attacking protesters with batons. The European Union has condemned the arrest of the leader of the opposition protesters. Ee was very clear in our that the actions are unacceptable. We are deeply concerned about the continued oppression and intimidation of the population by unexplained arrests, arbitrary arrests. This is unacceptable and we call on all people who have been detained based on political reasons and arbitrarily to be released immediately. Barbara our reporter is monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania. One of the main opposition , itvists still at liberty seems until earlier on monday where witness describes seeing her being bundled into a band by masked man. She dropped her phone in the scuffle and that was picked up by one of these men as they dragged her off and drove away. She knew the risk, she had spoken of the risk of what would happen by standing above the crown and speaking out against lukashenko and the opposition that declared victory in the disputed elections. She had formed a Political Party called together to help push for those new elections. So it will come as no surprise to her and friends that she seems to have been taken out of circulation for the moment. Lithuanias oren minister here in vilnius has said that what is is the government is cynically eliminating the eliminating the opposition one by one. Barbara the berlin hospital treating kremlin critic Alexey Navalny said his condition has improved, allowing doctors to take him out of an induced,. He was fun to germany last month after falling ill amid a flight in russia. Poisoned with was a nerve agent. A statement from the hospital said he is now responding to speech and they are trying to wean off the chemical ventilation. The uks foreign minister has summoned the Russian Ambassador to the u. K. But expresses concern over what happened to navalny. The poison was used by a russian agent two years ago. And a video message calls for criminal investigation in russia. He is a citizen of russia, so the authorities should investigate why he has gone into a, and who poisoned him. Because it was an attempt to kill a politician in russia. Is very upsetting for our country that such obvious truths need to be spoken aloud and repeated, but i will repeat, i demand an investigation takes place in the attempted murder of a public figure. Barbara india has overtaken brazil to become the country with the secondhighest number of Coronavirus Infections in the world. It is reported the Worlds Largest daily number of infections for nearly a month now, more than 90,000 each of the last two days. Spain meanwhile has become the First Western european country to pass a halfmillion coronavirus cases. Thanly increase of more 1240 new cases despite stringent measures on face mask and social distancing being forced in recent weeks. Americans have been celebrating the labor day weekend, despite the u. S. Being the Country First hit by covid19. In california, where cases have fallen over the past two weeks, many flocked to the beach to escape a recordbreaking heat lay. The state still has double the number of cases it had going into the memorial day long weekend in may. That National Holiday was followed by a surge in coronavirus cases. Labor day is also the traditional start of the u. S. President ial campaign, and it seems President Donald Trump is still trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the polls. The Trump Campaign is being centered on law and order and how to recover from the economic damage brought by the coronavirus. While biden is focused on trumps handling of the pandemic and rising unemployment. Hisa tellall book by former lawyer Michael Cohen be released 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 are undermining Public Confidence in a cure. [indiscernible] we will have full transparency on the vexing. One of the problems is the way hes playing with politics. A goodried if we do have vaccine, people will be reluctant to take it. Hes undermining Public Confidence. Have thewe now official start of the election campaign. Tell us a little bit about what its looking like right now. Depending on the polls that weve seen in the past week hes in aould say statistical dead heat with joe biden, about four points ahead of donald trump come 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 less than 60 days away at this point, and really the only result that matters is how American Voters cast their ballots on november 3. That said, this is a very competitive race and certainly you saw both the president ial candidates in the running mates out on the Campaign Field on this labor day, trying to both excite their base of support and trying to persuade unconvinced voters to cast a ballot for them and not for the other team on november 3. Barbara President Trump us had to do a little bit of damage mitigation in the past few days, first the atlantic magazine is reporting that he called u. S. War dead losers and suckers. And now this book by Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, which comes out tomorrow on tuesday and also is said to contain some damaging information. Hashats right, not only accusations from numerous sources confirmed by numerous news organizations that he has disparaged the service of members of the u. S. Military, calling them suckers and losers, something which the president again tonight on monday denied. Now he has to contend with Michael Cohens book, and in that book which is officially published on tuesday here in the u. S. , cohen says that not only was trump known for consistently making racist comment about africanamericans, but that he also made similar comments about nelson mandela, the Freedom Fighter and former first president of south africa after apartheid, something that might be quite offensive to those in that country and to admirers of mandela worldwide. It also apparently says that donald trump is not just an admirer of vladimir putin, but wanted to emulate him when he became president , and that is certain to raise more concern, given that the involvement of russia government officials in the u. S. Campaign to try to distort the vote one way or another was already a political issue this year. Latest roslyn with that from alexandria, virginia. Thank you. Still lots more to come in this halfhour, including fears that this could be the new normal in south korea. Calls for greater see defensive after the second major storm in a week. And bad hair day. Protesters forced the closure of a pharmacy chain over ads that they claim were racist. Its looking rather wet and , make it isng down way further east. Warm weather in adelaide, the system will push its way through and there will be Something Like a 10 or 11 degrees drop in temperature. 19 celsius to high in adelaide on tuesday afternoon. Wet t weather making its way across victoria. Near 19 as we go into wednesday. Fresher weather coming back in behind. The rain will come through later on in the week. Wet weather also make its way into the south island of new zealand. Rainleased to say we have clearing away, the brighter skies starting to push back in with clear whether coming in. The Tropical Storm will sweep its way farther northward weakening as it does so. Heavy rain for the far northeast of china b but dryer to the sou. Barbara welcome back heres a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. Saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of eight people involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in turkey. Last year, five of them were sentenced to death for the killing, but that has now been cut to 20 years in jail. Belarusian Opposition Leader is missing after being snatched off the streets by masked men in the center of missed of minsk. She was one of three women who join forces to challenge Alexander Lukashenko and last months disputed election. In a german hospital treating Alexey Navalny said his condition has improved, allowing doctors to take him out of an induced, peer german experts say tests show he was poison with the nerve agent nova chart. Economists estimate latin america is at risk of losing up to 45 million jobs due to the ongoing global pandemic. Ecuador has been one of the hardest hit economies in the region, with more than a Million People in need of work, and 5 million others fighting to keep unstable jobs. Thats a staggering 85 of the countrys workers, as our latin american editor now reports. Years, ecuadorians have been struggling to keep their heads above water in a troubled economy. Eight months ago, only four out of 10 people had full employment. Now, with the pandemic, the job market has collapsed. She texas on what she calls a depressing trip down memory lane. This is where she used to run a modest but successful cafe with four employees. This was a bustling area where people gathered. There were lots of tourists. This is my coffee shop which i had to close. I feel terrible sorrow when i see all this. All of us entrepreneurs who put our hopes and dreams and energy into this in order to live. Now we are struggling just to survive. Reporter the few who are still open dont know how much longer they can hang on. Of people whos are unemployed and are forced to update their contracts and work for half or 80 less if they pay at all. Reporter an astonishing 85 of ecuadorians are now either unemployed or in precarious jobs. Jobs ast their journalist and are trying to survive selling Blood Pressure meters, so, and face mask. They have two children. Family, we need roughly 900 for the house. Now i cant manage to even make 200. I dont know what we will do. Ecuador cannot access credit because of its enormous foreign debt. The government has continued paying creditors, leaving almost nothing for emergency aid for the needy. Asnomists this economists it is a structural problem. The peril is asian of the productive apparatus, the pandemic, the drop in consumption and the governments economic policies have created an extremely dangerous cocktail, which is reflected in the employment figures. Reporter and in a country where massive demonstrations over the withdrawal of fuel subsidies nearly brought down the government last year. Is not just the economy, its the govern ability of ecuador that is now at stake. The Korean Peninsula has been battered by its major storm in a week. The typhoon wrought heavy rains and strong winds after hitting japans southern island, but it is now been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. From south korea, here is more. Reporter he came howling ashore, pummeling the southeast corner of south korea, the second destructive typhoon within a matter of days. The seafront restaurant was already extensively damaged by the typhoon last week. The same family have been running it for 40 years and say they have never experienced storms like these. Wrecked. Are completely im at a loss. I dont know where to begin. Life was already tough before this. Reporter this typhoon first pounded the main Southern Japanese island with winds gusting up to 200 kilometers per hour, prompting an order for nearly 2 Million People to evacuate their homes. It battered 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 unusually prolonged seasonal rains, there has been more flooding, especially alalong the peninsulas east coast, extending up into north korea. The countrys leader, kim jongun, has taken a prominent role in directing the cleanup of earlier typhoon damage. In punishing officials for failing to prevent the flooding of one eastern city. That city has been inundated once more by the typhoon. Inspectsth korea, he the damage to his fish distribution business. If more powerful typhoons are in the north, maybe the country has to adapt to the new reality. He and his neighbors wait anxiously to find out what the surrounding seas might throw at them next. Nearly 300 rohingya and refugees have been rescued from a beach in indonesia after being at sea for six months. At least 30 people died on the journey from bangladesh. Those who survived have been moved to a temporary shelter, but it is not clear if they will be allowed to stay in indonesia. This report is from jakarta. Reporter these children are exhausted and traumatized. They survived a dangerous journey. Refugees itohingya distant embarks, but at least 30 died on the long trip from bangladesh. Fortunately we came to indonesia and the indonesian people are really helpful toward us. They are working with the you and Refugee Agency to provide support, including medical care. Legscouldnt stretch my when i slept. We were just sitting. So it affected our legs so much that we almost got paralyzed. Some told al jazeera they were trying to get to malaysia, not indonesia. I have my sisters in the camps so i wanted to go to malaysia with money to support them. I come from the camps in bangladesh. They huddled together in darkness, not knowing what would happen next. Hours later, they were moved to a temporary shelter. Hundreds of thousands of rohingya have fled where they face violence and persecution to bangladesh. From there, many tried to reach Southeast Asian countries by boat to escape poverty and crowded refugee camam. Community groups are trying their best to help with food and other essentials. They said they were from bangladesh and going to malaysia, but there boat became broken so they were stranded. Acha welcome them with open arms. It is not clear if they will be allowed to stay here in indonesia. They will be kept here for the time being intense and the building. The government will register each of them. Many of those we spoke to have made the same plea. If the indonesian government allow us to stay, we will stay. If they dont allow us, then maybe america, australia, or canada will take us. They are bully hoping to make a new home for themselves wherever they are accepted. Barbara a young girl tackled to the ground by Hong Kong Police your prodemocracy protest has told local media that we she that she was only buying schools apprise school supplies. It says officers use minimum force on the girl after she ran away in a suspicious manner. The girl and her brother were both fine for reaching social distancing rules. Nearly 300 people were arrested at the unauthorized demonstration. The latest stage in Julian Assanges legal battle against extradition to the United States has begun. He is wanted for espionage in the u. S. For leaking secrets related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. This report from outside the court in london. Reporter the resumption of the extradition hearing and the many vocal supporters of Julian Assanges out in numbers again. He arrived he arrived in a risen banned from the highsecurity ban on the edge of london where he is being held. Thene sense, none of arguments have change. The u. S. Says he is guilty of spying and want him to face court in the United States. His backers say the case is a threat both to the rule of law and to the foundations of proper journalism. Next to people like you, to people like me . Not everybody, because most are realts, those who journalists, will challenge authority and Call Authority out and call governments to account, who reveal secrets, who do all the things ive always understood journalists should do. They will be at risk. Reporter the latest attempt to destroy the case is based on claims that the cia illegally monitored conversations between a sign shan his loggers. That illegalfirmed conversation between julie are billion and his lawyers were delivered to the United States. That in itself should lead d to dismissal. Reporter it is a very long time ago that wikileaks published the video evevidence of amamerican journalist backing journalists and other innocents in iraq. Seven years holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy paid a huge toll on Julian Assanges mental and physical health. A full 160 lawyers have signed a joint statement saying there are no grounds whatsoever for this extradition to continue. So it is hardly the concern is that in supposedly democratic countries, criminalizing the fairc journalism should be there. If he loses, he will appeal. Al jazeera, london. Barbara the military junta in mali has been told it must name a traditional Prime Minister by september 15. The order was given at a summit in nigers capital. Its army has ruled the country since last month school which saw trade band with the block. Details about the traditional government have not been promised despite elections within 12 months. Protesters in south africa have forced a leading Retail Pharmacy to close its doors following a hair advertisement that it claims was racist. He used an image of a black persons hair with the dull,ption, frizzy and while a white womans hair was labeled normal. They have since apologized and taken down the images, but members of the econonomic freedm