Written across india even as it overtakes brazil with the 2nd highest coronavirus cases in the wild. Now saudi arabia is facing more criticism for overturning the death sentences for members of the hit squad who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi 8 people have been handed jail terms of between 7 and 20 is after the journalist was strangled and dismembered and istanbul and 2018 turkey says the court ruling did not meet International Expectations and next year bryan reports. The saudi hit squad accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was caught on camera landing in turkey and entering the kingdoms consulate in istanbul thats where a prominent and well connected critic of Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin solomon was interrogated killed and dismembered but while 21. 00 men were detained by saudi arabia over his murder and 11 went on trial much of what happened in the courtroom remains a mystery the trial was done in secret and close trial that there was no International Observers in the hands of the victims or the accused were not published. And theres no more. Appeal possible so the nature of the evidence although you know every technical part of the trial almost has been questioned by. Internationally accepted judicial standards last year 5 of them were given the Death Penalty for the killing but thats been cut to 20 years in prison 3 others have been given sentences of saving to teen years and will say is calling a fast i think. The whole verdict seems to me to have been manipulated and i way they used of course they get behind a fig leaf according to practice Legal Practice in saudi arabia and the family has the right to commute any sentence and the family has issued such a flourish and most probably under duress i dont think it was done really knowing the family. Knowing a man so i was surprised by their 2 official g. Sounds met the saudi king and crown prince in the weeks after they found his killing the cia and other intelligence agencies have said theres a direct link between the crown prince and the murda the case caused worldwide outrage and tarnished mohammed bin sahlins reputation but several of those in the hit squad coming from. Than his inner circle though he denies involvement the u. N. Experts who investigated murder said in a series of tweets the saudi prosecutor performed one more today in this parody of justice but these verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy she went on to say that crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon remained well protected against any meaningful scrutiny in his country and that the verdicts cant be allowed to whitewash what happened the saudi Prosecutor Says this causes the case both privately and publicly many though say justice for his shoghi has not been served brian al jazeera. Now the European Union is calling on bell arista needed to release more than 600 people who have been detained for protesting on sunday its also condemning the disappearance of a prominent opposition activist Maria Kolesnikov is missing after being snatched off the street by masked men and taken away in a van in the center of the capital minsk she is one of the 3 women who joined forces before last months disputed president ial elections to challenge Alexander Lukashenko and she is the only one who hasnt fled batterers this is completely unacceptable to you it was very very clear in our statements that to be considered the actions of the authorities in belarus unacceptable we are deeply concerned about the continued repression and intimidation of the population by unexplained our wrists very often arbitrarily our roasts our wrists of our wrists which are motivated politically this is unacceptable we call on all people who have been detained based on political reasons and arbitrarily to be deterred to be released immediately our correspondent Bennett Smith is monitoring all the developments from neighboring if youre any. Maria kolesnik over was one of the last remaining main opposition activists still at liberty it seems until earlier on monday when witnesses witnesses described seeing being bundled into a van by masked man she dropped the phone they say skulk woman was picked up by one of these men as they drugged or all and drove away now maria tell us nico that knew the risks youve spoken of the risks of what would happen by standing above the crowd and speaking out against. His decisions the victory and the oldest 9 disputed elections she herself formed with colleagues at Political Party only last week called together to help push for those new elections so it will come as no surprise really perhaps to her and her friends that she seems to have been taken out of circulation for the moment leanest that could be serious he said that the waiting is foreign minister here in the us he has said that what is happening is that the outgoing leadership in belarus us are described solution his government is cynically eliminating the opposition warm by warm and he says what is happening is reminiscent of the stalinist secret police one of our i got cept as another one of those 3 women who spearheaded that Opposition Campaign shes currently in exile in poland and told aljazeera its a typical tactic i think the tank is regime to try to intimidate us as a pangs. Country in belarus you know its normal its not normal but you know good sense but its normal when the people get in without any explanations for you she will be released as soon as possible because i really worry about her and you know in belarus the entire nation became leader so its so you see the leaders we see the leaders everywhere now in the streets in the students in the universities in their effect theories in the player plans look at include you works this way everything and they see a leader and they would like to isolate this this leader from the people from the ship and this is socalled as i said its normal are in a snob what are hopefully a location will not be able to be 9500000 people or 4 bureaus because there is simply they will not be in a space in the prisons. Now britains foreign minister has summoned the Russian Ambassador to the u. K. Over the poisoning of Opposition Leader alexina valmy call that unacceptable that a banned chemical weapon had been used in the valley has been brought out now of a medically induced coma and doctors in berlin where hes being treated say hes been responsive german experts say he was poisoned with one of the now they didnt family novacek before a domestic flight in russia last month on the belize fellow opposition politician your above sub has released a video message calling for a criminal investigation in russia in the one they fall for war i see no valley fell into a coma in russia and hes citizen of russia so the authorities should investigate in russia why he fell into a coma and who poisoned him not just because Angela Merkel demanded this or sanctions can be imposed but because it was an attempt to kill a politician in russia it is very upsetting for our country that that obvious truths need to be spoken aloud and repeated but i will repeat and demand an investigation takes place into the attempted murder of a public figure so we can officially name those who poisoned the valley with. 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President is still still trailing his democratic rival in the polls as the traditional labor day starts a campaign in kicks off Donald Trumps campaign has been focused on law and order and economic recovery from the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic while joe biden is challenging trumps handling of the pandemic and rising unemployment the president s worries are predicted to continue with the release of a tell all book by his film the lawyer Michael Cohen in the coming hours in that book cohen alleges that donald trump described Nelson Mandela as a poor leader who ruined a south africa and said that no black leader can run a country the Mandela Foundation has responded calling arrogant and uninformed Michael Cohen is currently serving a 3 year sentence for lying to congress and financial offenses well lets get more now with rosen and jordan who joins us live from alexandria virginia quite the shop response there from the Mandela Foundation and i expect even more fallout on a number of fronts as this book is released on tuesday. Well its not surprising that the Mandela Foundation would fire back at donald trump but its also not surprising that yet another person who was close to the president is alleging that the man harbors racist sentiment Michael Cohen apparently also has written in his memoir that donald trump was so incensed by the election of barack obama that he actually had a lookalike hired to play the president so that trouble could routinely borate him and then tell him that he was quote fired and he has released a photo from his memoir showing this apparent interaction between donald trump and the actor playing the former u. S. President and so the president is probably going to find himself having to answer more questions about his views of africans and africanamericans as hes heading into the last 56 or so days of the general campaign here in the United States own runs as we were saying today is traditionally a fast day of campaigning but this isnt your average election yet biden still ahead and hes trying to defend his lead. Thats right the president did call love what he said was a press conference but in fact was just another event using the white house as a Campaign Style props where he talked about his what his campaign what is it ministration i should say is doing to try to end the covert 19 pandemic and he suggested that there could be an october surprise trying to make certain that there is a vaccine available to deal with that 19 something that is sensibly could get more people to vote for donald trump on november 3rd well earlier in the day while he was on the campaign trail joe biden the former Vice President criticized what he said was Donald Trumps efforts to. A little sighs the search for an effective vaccine here some of what the former Vice President had to say on the right. Thanks for that. One of the problems we find with. Anything. For it if you have really got. Going on the mining. Now we are going to see donald trump out on the campaign trail traveling on tuesday and the grill question is going to be whether he can close the gap in the number of polls taken of registered and likely voters here in the u. S. Because right now these polls have joe biden the democratic challenger ahead of trouble by anywhere from 4 points to a love and points obviously the democrats would like to keep that lloyd as wide as possible billing into november 3rd but as someone who has covered many president ial campaigns i can tell you that the only poll that matters is the one that happens on election day. After aurora and the campaigning for us from alexandria virginia thanks frank. Well still ahead here on out there survivors demand to know if the Manchester Arena bombing could have been prevented. And the cry to virus pandemic pushes ecuador to the brink of Economic Growth and find out why and economists say maybe little the government can do. Hello once again welcomes another look at the international forecast the skies remain largely clear across a good part of the u. S. Certainly where we need the cloud and the right over towards the western side of the country no hints of that what weather we do get and in fact wintry weather asked to be the one the spinning out of kind of that you see this long line of cloud here just coming out of canada out to scott she was pushing through manitoba ducking down across the Northern Plains that will sink further south with so temperatures in casper add in denver wyoming and colorado plunging around about like 2025 degrees a massive drop in temperatures here so there will be some snow there be quite a came windus can be a real change in conditions here not wetter weather pushes all the way over towards the lakes no sign of any right as i said over towards the west l. A. But as hot as it has been with 31 celsius is still plenty hot enough and above the average for the southeast weve got some showers in play here they are going to continue as we go into the middle of the way and notice for the deep south texas seeing some really heavy rainfall we could actually have flooding for some here showers continue across parts of the caribbean the heaviest of which will be into Central America with a scattering of showers the great trying to these. This is one of the boldest standing for the largest revolutions in all make our planet great to get we have to meet the c o 2 emissions targets electric cars a new literature mission many to be mind where people are just talking about the stars in. The world of eustaces commerce driving Energy Transmission the promise of clean energy an illusion the dark side of green energy. On aljazeera. The with a the old. Hello again i missed all the attainder lets remind you of our top stories here this hour saudi arabia is facing criticism for overturning the death sentences for members of the hit squad who killed jon lester g. 8 people have been handed jail terms of between 7 to 20 ends. The e. U. Is condemning the disappearance of better russian opposition figure Maria Kolesnik over and witnesses say she was taken away in a van by mouth men men so shes one of 3 women who challenge Alexander Lukashenko is disputed election last month. And the u. S. President ial campaign has officially kicked off and President Donald Trump is trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the polls trump is campaigning on law and order while biden is challenging trumps handling of the current a virus pandemic. Now an inquiry has begun into the 27000 bombing of a concept and the british city of manchester 22 people were killed when a bed detonated his explosives at a concert by singer Ariana Grande this probe will examine possible security failings in the lead up to the attack brennan reports from manchester. Many aspects of the Manchester Arena bombing have already been the subject of inquiries and reports but this inquiry will for the 1st time look in detail at the circumstances of each of the individual victims deaths i ask you to remain standing while mr greenie reached out and 10 of them were just children teenagers and younger the youngest was just 8 years old the inquiry began poignantly with a minutes silence on the reading out of the 22 names one of the questions at the heart of this process is could those deaths have been prevented. If i conclude on the evidence that things went wrong then i should say so but we are not looking for scapegoats we are searching for the truth the bomber was salman a baby his rucksack of explosives and shrapnel exploding as the audience emerged from a pop concert by Ariana Grande a baby was on the radar of the Security Service m i 5 yet had been able to return from libya on challenge just days before the bombing and my 5 targeting will be examined understanding those press processes and questioning those private processes to see whether they are actually fit for purpose is going to be a key part an important part of this inquiry the Security Services evidence will likely be heard in secret inquiries loyalist of a number of other chances to intervene. Among the potential opportunities to stop a babys attack one witness for example raise the alarm 32 minutes before the bomb went off with a passing policewoman and 17 minutes before the explosion another witness called mr a raised his concerns about a babys behavior to one of the arenas security staff but at no point was Security Control informed the inquiry has a wide ranging remit and could prove deeply uncomfortable for the authorities and deeply upsetting for the families but the inquiry lawyer has promised relatives he will leave no stone unturned brennan aljazeera manchester well the main suspect in the 2017 new years day attack on a turkish nightclub has been sentenced to life in prison. Than it was back national was handed the equivalent of 40 life sentences without parole 39 people were killed dozens were injured when he opened fire at the rain a club in istanbul a sorry 5 initially said he acted on behalf of eisel but has since said his testimony was made under torture and pressure. Turned into the coronavirus pandemic and 17 coronavirus cases have been confirmed greeces overcrowded maria migrant camp more than 12000. 00 people at the camp on the island of less boss have been placed under quarantine after its 1st case was reported last week aid groups are warning that social distancing and basic hygiene measures are impossible to implement in the crowded facility. Indias government is pushing ahead with its reopening plans despite a spike in corona virus cases there its now become the country with the 2nd highest number of infections in the wild just behind the u. S. But with more than 4000000 confirmed cases that represents just point 3 percent of the population our correspondent elizabeth purana has more from new delhi. The delhi metro had been transporting millions of people every day until its closure and by march on its 1st day of reopening the few people on board were relieved the service had re