Down its biggest state again its more than 26000 coronavirus cases are reported in one day. Donald trump dismisses a Supreme Court order saying his tax records can be examined by prosecutors in new york. Aljazeera Programme Makers are being questioned by police in malaysia about their documentary on Migrant Workers being locked up during the covert 19 locked down police say theyre investigating the program for sedition defamation and violation of the Communications Multimedia act ill just syria has responded with a statement calling on the malaysian authorities to respect Media Freedom and desist from treating its journalists as criminals ill just says it has serious concern. Ands about developments that have occurred in malaysia since the broadcasting of its water one east negative investigative documentary locked up in the lasers locked down on july the 3rd the documentary investigated why the covert 900 pandemic is forcing Migrant Workers into hiding the government put some areas of kuala lumpur with high infection rates on the long down with people tested and some fingerprinted foreigners without valid documents were arrested malaysian officials and state television have criticised the report is being inaccurate misleading and unfair aljazeera as attempts to interview government ministers and officials during the production were declined staff have experienced sustained Online Harassment since the broadcast one of one east is an asia Pacific CurrentAffairs Program that is one Numerous International awards for the asias top policeman is speaking to the media hes dismissed questions over the journalist being treated unfairly he says the attorney general is yet to decide whether charges will be laid to feel that the core belief. To be free will be im not going to intimidate them im not going to allow anyone to harm to cause harm or to if they get the harm done please b b b b b b be professional about it. We still allow them. Access to the best lawyers or whatever it is the agent is sacked the other way. Speak to us from in kuala lumpur hes the chief executive and founder of the galen center for health and social studies good to have you with us you as someone who follows the health and social situation there perhaps you can explain to us the conditions that the documentary reported on those are not issues that started with this documentary right absolutely i think this documentary actually highlights some of the conditions which were. Used to the korean 19 outbreak and the subsequent restrictions on what no put into place but i have to say in response to what we just played on aired a moment ago the 30s have every right to be outraged if the documentary had been malicious and deliberately provocative to incite a certain amount of hatred towards a particular agenda or anybody reasonable who has watched this documentary would agree that it is actually fair and balanced and that is definitely what aljazeera is repeating and were calling of course for our colleagues not to be harmed or not not to have freedom to operate as journalists restricted no anyway. Tell us a little bit about the issue what sort of conditions are undocumented migrants facing in the country especially because of the long now. Well if youre documented or undocumented migrant very often the issues are very similar in terms of how you are able to Access Services but also the treatment of or yourself in the Malaysian Society environment you are vulnerable regardless of your document undocumented status but if you were undocumented that probability actually increases tenfold simply because you wouldnt have necessarily the kind of access that you have to services such as Health Care Legal aid or even some form of remedy against an unfair employer that we have seized your passport and may not renew your s what was highlighted in your documentary so if youre undocumented it definitely is a point of concern especially in a Public Health emergency such as the kobe 19 outbreak how easy is it for you to feel for people to talk around raise this issue its clearly a sensitive issue well these sort of issue shouldnt be sensitive really i think from a humanitarian perspective especially when youre looking at it from a Public Health angle which is basically to care and to provide care for those who are in need we should be able to look at my coworkers as being part of the population in which we depend on their labor and they depend on us to help in allowing them to generate income for themselves and for their families so really this issue goes specter much more fundamental perspective of how we look at my work and it is unfortunately extremely xenophobic at the moment especially when foreigners are seemingly blamed for bringing this outbreak upon malaysians has the public attention impacted policy its role in hopefully a positive way. Well definitely this. Documentary that you have. Broadcast it actually brings to light quite a number of difficult longstanding and unfortunate the. Uncomfortable issues that affect a Nation Society and thats got to do with xenophobia bigotry and racism and how we look at these issues within this context and because theyre foreign because theyre not national it actually highlights even further how Vulnerable People can be when they are forced to confront these issues and unfortunately at this point of time we see that the government has taken this the wrong way. In a way that it has misread could be. Rather than to look at the good aspects of this documentary because policy changes need to happen we have constant michael work at labor and it has yet to happen and its been that way for decades but it must be emphasized. In no way were Migrant Workers if they were positive for covert 19 mistreated their Health Authorities provided the same kind of treatment which was humane compassionate and equal that you would expect for a person who is malaysian to be receiving in the Health Care Facility so when it come when it came to the mine workers were taken care of but what we were concerned about was the implementation of Immigration Enforcement actions during a Public Health emergency. I thank you so much for coming and sharing your experience and perspective with a lot of the. Thank you for having me. Human rights watch has called on the malaysian government to stop treating criticism as a crime and repeal laws used to limit speech in a statement the Deputy Director for asia said malaysias very caton nasional government is increasingly responding to public criticism by carrying out abusive investigations and species charges Prime Minister madina scene should recognize everyone has a right to criticize their government without fear of investigation or prosecution south koreas former President Park geun hye is been has had a 32 Year Prison Sentence rather for corruption reduced by in 10 years south koreas 1st female president was impeached 3 years ago following huge protests and convicted of bribery embezzlement in the use of power our correspondent robert brier has more from the capital seoul. Its all dates back of course to park here in hays disgraced time in office you remember it became mired in this Corruption Scandal in 2016 as she was forced out of office early 2017 impeached and then prosecuted through the courts found guilty on a whole range of charges of bribery extortion abuse of power and in the original sentencing she was given a very hefty 32 years total for all of these offenses now last year the Supreme Court here in south korea sent this back to the high court saying it wasnt happy with the way sentencing are being carried out and there was an expectation that she could have faced actually more prison time in fact the prosecution was asking for it to be increased to 35 years well the opposite seems to have happened with the this court and now reducing the total time that she is been sentenced to for all the charges although her scent crimes in office 222 years also reducing the the fine shes meant to pay from 25000000. 00 to 15000000. 00 in their ruling the High Court Judges a panel of 3 judges stated that they did not believe that she had gained financially very much from her crimes in office and also taken into account her age she is now 68 years of age even if she does serve this reduced 22 years then she would be a very old person by the time she saw freedom again all schools in hong kong are being closed to stem the daily increase in covert 19 infections 42 new cases were reported on thursday the majority locally transmitted many schools have been shut since february because of the outbreak. Indias most populous state is set to go back on the lockdown as the country deals with a rise in corona virus infections the weekend lockdown will begin friday night 1200 new cases were reported in the states pradesh on thursday india recorded more than 26000 new infections in the past day called hi elizabeth for on the ms in new delhi she has the malices of while for going into walk down again. Certainly the State Government admitting like others have that they need to take more action as the number of cases both an. And india just continue to keep rising the State Government said that its going into lockdown from friday night until monday morning to break the chain of transmission that officers and markets will be shot bosses wont be allowed unless theyre taking people to train stations because trains and flights will continue now with their positions not the worst affected state but it is the most populous its home to more than 220000000 people in the government there says that its going to continue with the Awareness Campaign india media has 800000 cases now and it had 700008 reached the 700000 mark on tuesday so its important to remember that the cases are rising as such that it took Something Like 56. 00 days to go from 0 reported 2100000 reported cases nearly 2 months and now its only taking 4 days to add on another 100000 cases the government says that its going to continue increasing testing tested nearly 300000 people yesterday and as well as that that its going to conduct a c one logical survey around the country to determine the spread of the virus or rather where its been by testing for antibodies in people. Now voting is underway in singapores general election with Strict Health measures in place Prime Minister lee hsien looms party is expected to hold on to power the election comes just 6 weeks after or just weeks rather after singapore emerged from a 2 month lockdown pandemic and the economy Major Concerns for those voters. Still ahead on aljazeera takes drastic steps as it struggles with an increase in coronavirus cases. We visited town in chile that has very few cases of corona virus it is still being left devastated by the pandemic. But. How i wake up plenty of hate across eastern and southern parts of europe but much cooler once again just sliding down across from the northwest behind this cold front were going to see some wetter weather coming through that will sink its way down across germany and france towards more positively as we go on through the next couple of days ahead of that we got a few showers just around northern italy around the alps got temps just touching 34 celsius in vienna as that cooler air behind that weather system 24 celsius the and falling temperatures struggling to get to around 19 celsius here on saturday is that fresh the weather starts to push through freshening up to in vienna to about 22 celsius in some really heavy downpours coming in as we go on through the course of the wake of that pushes its way up through belarus into that western side of russia further south were hanging on to the hague temperatures still getting up to around 31 in athens so hot sunshine to you across northern parts of africa 26 the 4 were bad not too bad here well see at last a fine and dry for the south plains showers across central parts of africa and if anything those showers just nothing a little further north well see showers pushing across into the gambia into senegal and also mauritania. 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Im back here watching ill just time to recap our headlines now aljazeera Programme Makers are being questioned by police in malaysia about their documentary on Migrant Workers being locked up during the covert night in lockdown aljazeera denies allegations the program is inaccurate misleading and unfair its urging Media Freedom south koreas former President Park geun hye has been has had have 32 Year Prison Sentence for corruption reduced by 10 years south koreas 1st female president with a peach 3 years ago following huge protests she was also a victim of bribery and abuse of power. Most populous state in india is to be put into a weekend long down from friday evening but the production is recorded a jump in corona virus infections india now has nearly 800000 cases. Health officials insured. Anchor are warning of a major crisis after a sudden spike in corona virus cases a new cluster has emerged at the rehabilitation facility in central sri lanka at least 253. 00 new cases were found there on thursday 10 percent of the countrys confirmed infections the center has been locked down and Contact Tracing is now on the way after an employee left the center and went on leave. Details now from now in colombo someone else trying to has had the situation under control but now suddenly this whats causing the spike. Thats exactly what Health Authorities are trying to determine right now so i mean i mean in terms of the last couple of months the country has managed to keep a lid on the situation at least thats what the official numbers have pointed towards weve had just over 2000 cases on tuesday so they think those announced last night and now this at a Drug Rehabilitation Center out of colombo basically this all came about when an inmate at the prison facility in colombo when he was diagnosed as positive and when they were tracing back you know where he had been they found that he had done that to a at this Rehab Facility and now a lot of concern given the numbers i mean just 10 percent of the overall total jumping over night the one stuff member has been found in a different town that are 10 families hearing that have been put on the sort of so isolation people that have been. Associated with this stuff member there were 10 members of staff from the center that were hearing from authorities that had moved out either going on leave on vacation so now the process of finding them. Having testing them and seeing what the situation is me on the way im in a lot of their concerns that perhaps the country might be heading back into some kind of lockdown most friction. Well this is this is the issue right now i mean after weeks of lockdown we did have things easing up but this happened on very much a kind of a fees basis we had essential workers being allowed medical stuff essential services being allowed in we had schools which had been clear was for almost 2 months essentially starting a phased return the key sort of grades if you like that have need to examine just started on monday now there will some concern but overall the feedback was that many pupils had turned back in school but obviously with this kind of number jumping as mark says the authorities are very keen to point out and reassure the public that everythings under control this doesnt mean like a massive spread people are worried we had some reports that even here in the capital colombo you see around me i mean its pretty much almost business as usual yes everybodys betting mosques but that number the 250. 00 number overnight did send people spotting into some sort of markets and shops to start stocking up just in case there might be foot restrictions so thats the kind of concern at this stage i mean and obviously authorities trying to get a handle on it once again and bring the situation under control. Those lies from colombo over. Chile was one of latin americas Fastest Growing economies now 2 and a half 1000000 people are out of work on of the places struggling most as a tell known for its for the unction and for the tional cooking pots as the see in human reports the residents of myra no longer make enough money to eat. Or hasnt opened his shop for months all the handmade played pottery inside is full of dust including the emblematic piggy banks that he makes some just as they were all there for saving money and for good luck he says for all. But today potter is in this small rural town have neither money