The history books new Research Shows most young people in the netherlands have no knowledge of this trip and its a massacre. U. S. President donald trump has commuted the sentence of his long time ally roger stone he advised trumps president ial campaign and was sentenced to jail for lying to congress and the russian approach on fishing reports. He has been a friend a confidant and for a very long time his biggest political supporter a religious student can thank donald trump 3 speed and the veteran political consultant was due to begin a prison sentence on cheezy with the president s granting of clemency that has gone away in my case. An assistant u. S. Attorney filed a motion with the court in which he assisted the sisterhood if the mother investigation had proof. Crowd strikes report that the russians hacked the d. N. C. And gave the information to wiki leaks thats a lie in a statement the white house said roger stone is a victim of the russia hopes that the left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency there was never any collusion between the campaign or the Trump Administration with russia he continued mr stone will be put at serious medical risk in prison hes appealed this conviction and is seeking a new trial it concludes roger stone is no a free man stone was caught up in robert millers investigation into alleged collusion between russia and the Trump Campaign in january last year he was charged with one count of obstruction 5 of making false statements and one of threatening a witness the charges included lying to congress during the Russian Investigation about his back channel links to wiki leaks during the 2016 Election Campaign prosecutors said he lied several times to protect donald trump after a trial in washington d. C. He was found guilty initially prosecutors recommended a 7 to 9 year sentence that was criticized by the president. He was sentenced to 40 months in jail fined 20000. 00 and told to complete 250 hours of Community Service several times the president insisted this was a miscarriage of justice and he was considering a pardon for his old friend including this on friday that i think right your son was very unfairly treated as were many before and in the meantime komi and all these guys are Walking Around in voting by the obama because weve got them by mike here they want to believe that one numerous republicans have over the last few days given a political cover to commute the sentence but others want him against it saying it could play badly in the months leading up to the next election adam schiff who led the impeachment process against donald trump said in a statement commuting the sentence of roger stone a crony who lied in obstructed oh. Investigation to protect trump himself is among the most offensive to the rule of law and principles of justice just this week stone tried to stop his sentence going ahead but at a hearing from school in Justice Department said it was a reasonable step something the president has known who ruled out fisher aljazeera Washington Well scott is a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution he says trumps position is politically motivated the president could have simply convince mr stone to serve 4 months of his that means just 10 percent of the sons handed down to him he could have issued this action or a full pardon on november 4th of november 5th right after the election at the point where the cost at least wouldnt be immediately applicable to him instead he decided to take this step and incur the cost in advance of the election which appears to be an indication either that the president is acting non strategically that hes acting somewhat radically or emotionally and taking this step or perhaps that he sees his political future whether its in the white house or perhaps in some other role as lying with his Political Base who buys into the narrative of the deep state that he is using to justify this action im sure youll see some question some increase some efforts a goodish an information about the reasoning process but again theres not much doubt that this is within the president s Legal Authority and its not clear that theres going to be a huge amount of paper trail behind it so aside from those questions and efforts to point out what a diff but it difficult and problematic thing this is from a policy and political standpoint im not sure there is much deeper inquiry that can be pursued the u. N. Security council has missed a deadline to reach an agreement to keep cross border aid flowing into syria russia with the support of china wants to cut the number of crossings in use but the u. S. And other Council Members say that would deprive syrian civilians of lifesaving supplies of diplomatic and its A James Baker report. The delivery of medicine food and other vital supplies to hundreds of thousands of syrians is at risk the Security Council deadlocked on details of the authorization of aid brought into Northern Syria from turkey. The councils now voted 5 times in just 4 days on a new resolution 3 versions written by russia didnt pass the result of the voting is as follows 2 other texts drafted by belgium and germany were blocked the drive through the illusion has not been adopted owing to the negative vote of 2 prominent members of the council even though everyone else on the council supported them russia and china use their vetoes the key Sticking Point until now has been the border crossings that can be used to bring aid into syria most Council Members want the 2 existing border crossings to remain but russia backed by china wants that reduced to just one leading aid agency is very clear on this point does it matter to you how many checkpoints there are as it stands right now the northwestern syria is served by 2 cross points and both of those are extremely important both of those Service Amount of people and by chopping away in excess point you are simply just trying to interrupt theyd operation and it has as know all relationship with the actual situation on the ground and it will be significantly more difficult to deliberate if that is another effort a compromise is underway and its a concession to russia its being proposed that the bubble how were crossing will remain open but. Will be given just 3 months to wind up operations james by aljazeera the United Nations campaigning has kicked off in hong kong for its Legislative Council elections this weekend the prodemocracy camp is holding a primary vote to decide on its candidates but the territories newly imposed National Security law has been overshadowing the lead up to the september vote sarah clarke reports now from hong kong. These images of a mob indiscriminately attacking protesters journalists and civilians in uniform last july marked a turning point in the hong kong demonstrations journalist with hope was Live Streaming when she was targeted i know that the proud castille live broadcast of me being beaten up by gangs and lobsters if terrible to watch but the thing is i do know like that so many people they went to you long after that because they watched barca it was this incident and last years months of antigovernment protests that inspired going to total into the political arena for the 1st time shell run as an independent candidate in the New Territories at the Legislative Council elections in september despite chinas newly imposed National Security law shes prepared to take the risk and fight for greater democratic reform in hong kong of course im concerned about my future of course the people here concerned about the future we also know that if we do not do something if we do not resist the other tarion or even to authoritarian rule theres no future at all for us to concern about you know in last years local Council Elections the prodemocracy camp secured 17 of the 18 districts and thats put greater competition in the prodemocracy bloc more young independent candidates are now standing for election to the citys legislature the probation camp which holds the majority acknowledges it might lose some seats but its confident voters will support the central policy to restore order in a city rocked by months of political unrest. The upcoming election will be a tough one we will focus on issues such as restoring social stability because of last years social unrest people hope the city can go back to normal soon as possible chinas new National Security looms over its Campaign Analysts say it effectively empowers authorities to disqualify candidates from local and prodemocracy camps. Critical of the Chinese Government this year i think china is taking up a much stronger position against the opposition so i guess. Position candidates may get this qualifies the National Security law has already seen some parties withdraw from this election because some members fear the risk of imprisonment should the prodemocracy have secured the majority that would live in the power to enact laws and reject or prove the budget and in extreme circumstances they could even try and force the resignation of the chief executive order over the final results on september 6th the coming months are unlikely to narrow hong kongs political divide syria clock aljazeera hong kong difficult holland joins us live now from Hong Kong David so were on the some polling had been delayed tell us where you on whats been happening there. Thats right daryn polling had been delayed by a couple of hours due to the fact that the police have raided the Polling Institute that was supposed to monitor this election and counterbalance not to leave say it has nothing to do with these elections but the Democratic Candidates and democrats the camp says the timing is very suspicious but polling is now under way the ballot boxes have opened im at one of the Housing Estates and behind me is one of the local offices which is conducting the polling out so you can see there are some people there queuing up it may not be the numbers that expected but there are still organizers have told us theyre so happy that people are actually showing up there have been many obstacles to this primary and just to give you some context the plan is for the democratic camp to try and consolidate that candidates and their support by allowing the public to choose who they feel would best represent them so usually in the past you would have a large number of candor to candidates which would break up the vote this time there in maine for those Legislative Council elections in september and trying to get the most candidates most popular candidates on the ballots for that but. The other obstacles have been a lot more words have told shops and other venues that were supposed to hold these ballots that they should not do it and so theyre pulled out and so theyve had to get quite creative about it in fact were hearing that even a boss is now being used as a ballot space and also a big impediment to people coming out today is that there has been an upsurge in corona virus infections again in hong kong yeah did the new National Security laws having a big impact on the list i mean how worried are people that the Legislative Council elections themselves could be at risk. Thats right there and either outlined all the issues today but yes overshadowing all of that is this you National Security law now those Legislative Council elections will go ahead its something thats been agreed on and there will be a lot of outcry if that doesnt happen but the question is whether democracy candidates will get a fair stand in those elections and so that is why theyre trying to hold this as a litmus test in the run up to those elections to see whether the democracy candidates will even be allowed to stand or whether that be breaking by by voicing out their concerns or their antigovernment platform whether that be breaking this National Security law and a lot of people here also have told us the reason that they are perhaps not voting or not coming to these venues just because theyre worried about them to this day get definition off the National Security law so theres a lot of concern that this National Security law although the government has clearly outlined that activities such as that should be allowed theres concern that this will still be used against not only the candidates but also those who participate here and so what were seeing here now is perhaps an example of what could happen in the run up with many people being just who waited for his part in the elections that law are to depart and there live for us in hong kong to be a thank you. Time for a short break here and ill just say when we come back well tell you why the largest broadcast in the philippines is just hours away from being shut down for good and. Anger at serbias president xanana doing not the time to make an accusation hes becoming too or solitary more thats ok but it was. Very wholesome and dry throughout much of the middle east of the north through turkey we have seen if you shot as a cop if you will around as you go through something. Sunday is a quite a bundle of cloud that will take the shot really anywhere from the Eastern Shores of the black sea across towards the caspian sea but at times we could see some heavier downpours basin pieces a cloud further to the south the winds are still strong through the interior of iraq and so blowing some of that sand and dust and it will travel south was a throughout the gulf 46 the high in baghdad on saturday by sunday similar sort of time which is and again the winds are quite strong at times like that dust as i say because certainly by far the tools the south quite a bit of cloud further to the south across into iran and yemen and across into the southwest of you move i did see one or 2 light showers i was slightly scenes of very heavy rain across into Southern Africa this front has been sliding by is brought some heavy rain and some strong winds across into cape town and that will continue the showers certainly on saturday but really the strongest winds they will continue at the south in the east coast and thats where the rain is headed next as you can see eventually pushing across into southern areas of mozambique it becomes a fairly unsettled on coastal areas on sunday again through central mozambique but all the while what a lot of clouds and showers through coastal areas of towns and in up through kenya and fight all the way up into somalia. Is resistance. Acra people are grabbing social and political issues by the. Time of seeing creativity. And protest to challenge and change ideas. On a controversial witness documentary on aljazeera. Welcome back to promote our top stories here this hour u. S. President donald trump has commuted the sentence of his long time ally roger stone advised trumps president ial campaign and was later sentenced to jail for lying to congress and the russian approach. To u. N. Security Council Votes to extend humanitarian aid to syria failed to pass aid agencies say the decision could lead to dark consequences for millions of people. And hong kongs prodemocracy supporters are holding a primary vote to pick candidates for septembers Legislative Council election and be the 1st vote since the imposition of a new National Security law. Now the largest broadcaster in the philippines is just hours away from shutting down for good thats after m. P. s refused to renew the a. B. S. C. B. S. License the channel has until late on saturday to appeal against the governments decision about 200 employees protested outside the networks headquarters in manila a. B. S. E b. N. Has repeatedly been threatened by the president for its Critical Coverage china was forced to go off air in may after its franchise expired that in a raw is an associate professor of journalism at the university of the philippines dilemma and he says m. P. s should not be regulating the media. Right now there is a beam me up but what will be in the going to be the landscape. That only god would really need to be you know out every now and then longer if should not be there. Than to be selective in terms of what. It will be about being because if it went against the opposite if the owners of the b. R. C. B. M. But they would want to make it be that are there only because thats the majesty of that happening right now and of course we have always if in mind that separate them a shot or yelling independent should be sustained and we cannot afford the weapon shot of such lots of french must drive has died 5 days after he was attacked by passengers when he reportedly asked them to wear masks for mongo was left brain dead after theyre sold in the city of bio and on sunday 5 men have been charged thousands of people took part in a march on wednesday to denounce the attack bus services were disrupted as drivers refuse to work face coverings are compulsory on public tra