a poison attack and uncovering more secrets from the tombs of so caro. now the head of one of the world s most influential companies samsung has been jailed for corruption j.y. levy has been sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison by a south korean court he was convicted of bribing an associate of former president park geun hye rob bryant joins us live from seoul so what actually happens to him now does this go to appeal. this is a real shock many people here had been expecting that he was going to avoid going back behind bars when the news came in fact the samsung share price dropped by a couple of percentage point it is since rebounded somewhat since then but it does give you an idea of just how unexpected this was many business groups here in south korea had appealed to the court for leniency in fact samsung themselves has appealed all along saying that it needs its boss this is by far the biggest conglomerate here in the south korean economy jay wiley is its de facto he
president of the u.s. remains on high alert over the threat of right playing violent. hello i m terry martin good to have you with us the u.s. the e.u. and canada have called for the immediate release of kremlin critic alexa he was arrested after landing in a ball airport on his return from berlin and while he had been in germany recovering from a nerve agent attack last august which he blames on the kremlin russian authorities said they detained me for violating the terms of a suspended prison sentence. with. a kiss goodbye to his take it was. arrested at passport control just minutes after expressing hope he might go free by use i m not afraid. to go through border control cross the border and go home i know i m right. against me are fake. just minutes earlier the plane had landed unexpectedly at moscow s sheremetyevo airport it had been diverted from a different moscow airport where it had previously been expected to land. dramatic scenes unfolded police arrested dozens of
a real shock decision there had been appeals by various business groups here for leniency from the court samsung itself has often asked the courts please don t jail our bass samsung is by far the biggest single conglomerate in the south korean economy and is part of the founding family j. wiley is its de facto head but it wasn t to be he has been given a 2 and a half custodial year custodial sentence now all these charges relate to bribery offenses he was found guilty of in 2017 he only served one year of a 5 year sentence and since then there has been this attempt by the prosecution to reimpose a tougher custodial sentence as part of the attempt by samsung to keep their boss out of jail they agreed to set up a compliance committee to look at the way that they deal with their business practices to ensure this doesn t happen again there is a lot of big issue here about the so-called chaebol system this system of family run businesses it is a controversial issue samsung is very
to vet all 25000 national guards deployed to the capital washington remains in a lockdown with unprecedented security. one of the things that i think we re learning and lessons learned is that. we all need to take those credible threats seriously and we re prepared. to do we need to do in order to support the citizens of our nation and our citizen soldiers you know we are couple different backgrounds different walks of life and we have different ideas but what we ve done is uniform we have one mission and that is to do what is necessary to protect america. samsung boss jay wiley has been sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison for bribery lee was convicted of bribing an associate of former president park geun hye he was previously convicted in 2017 but only served one year in jail the supreme court ordered a retrial he has been defacto head of the electronics giant for the past 6 years the u.s. joins the e.u. in calling for russian opposition politician l.x. in the valley t
samsung boss jay wiley is sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison over a huge south korean corruption scandal and international condemnation after kremlin critic alexander valley is arrested moments after returning to russia. it was this week one year ago that the world started becoming aware of the seriousness of a viral outbreak that would explode into a full blown pandemic well in china was the 1st place to go into lockdown al-jazeera is investigative unit has obtained videos recorded during the earliest days that was smuggled out of the country filreis has this exclusive report. a year ago journalists from chinese state media arrived in hand to cover a story about a mysterious new virus is 3 days before the city goes into lockdown. the few confirmed cases of the disease i want to see food market one this is a single this is just a little on the no on the closure that we have concealed the generally side entities for their own safety they soon realize the outbreak is muc