Former President Park yohe and her associate choice and still now both serving long prison terms he was given a 5 year sentence for bribery but only served one year before his sentence was cut in half on appeal and he was able to walk free but the prosecution appealed that decision and won a ruling at the Supreme Court which is now resulted in this retrial the case has also highlighted the longstanding controversy over the role of south koreas j. Ball these are family run conglomerates that dominate the economy i dont often accused of wielding too much power prosecution lawyers have told the court that lees alleged bribery was part of a plan to take over the chairmanship of some song from his father it poses a challenge to the current liberal administration of president moon j n seen here at a recent ceremony with a lady unveiling a multibillion dollar investment. Boon has promised to curb the chaebol powers but it comes at a difficult time for south korea and samsung as the tech giant
On aljazeera could try to. As the u. S. Tries to chart is to develop. Hello that temperatures have been coming down steadily across areas of the middle east but at the same time the cloud has been coming in steadily as has the rain showers and look at this quite a bundle of the thunderstorm trials than the east end of the med so not surprisingly. Across into beirut this view looking at exactly that those dark clouds overhead more of the same on friday and those rain showers working the way through syria into iraq across into these Western Areas of iran becoming really quite widespread itll bring some cooler air in as well so 16 celsius in terre look at that 29. 00 degrees in baghdad and there is the charms of those showers now still feeling pretty humid across much of the Arabian Peninsula temp is not too bad but as i say the humidity levels are still fairly high 34 in doha on friday and that cloud from the north that is sinking south was not really going to bring any rain but it could