and saying that look pakistan is students are coming home is that really what the pakistan government is trying to do. yeah i mean earlier on monday then these flights arrived the government. minister of the chinese investor was there and later both of them addressed a new conference news conference and the chinese ambassador really appreciated pakistan's standing shoulder to shoulder with china so the 2 governments are clearly trying to put a united stance reacted front saying we're in this together and they're appreciating each other meanwhile these students are our standard and their families are deeply devoted and pottstown what precautions is august on taking to prevent the spread of the virus well the. gil get back to start on goldman which is the northern region which borders china it was just dual to reopen last week the government has decided to no keep it closed until april so they want to restrict. people coming in and going out this is the gateway for the project to join up pakistan corridor which the 2 countries have spent billions and so the government is saying we are t

care of there that in pakistan because frankly pakistan's health system is in complete shambles and there's a fear if people start arriving then pakistanis will not be able to contain it what is the response been in pakistan itself to their governments on willingness to actually evacuate its citizens the government has been deeply criticized deals have been written commentators on social media have questioned that you know how can you leave your people in the situation even just heading from has not just the helpless and standard. but boxed on to saying we have to look at a bigger picture now imagine if your brother or your son was standard that village you pay attention to the government's official point of view not really so many families are perturbed and they are asking the government to have a de tank i think we also need to point out here shows if the commercial flights for these are regular commercial flights have begun landing into pakistan from china or some by way of doha and it would appear at least from the tweets of the special advisor to the pakistan prime minister on health t

and how global warming and a glacier in pakistan threatens communities in the mountains regions. plus the manila mom's sick and tired of drug war killings now don't taking back the streets . i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us more than half of the 2700000 afghan refugees in the world live in pakistan they're spread across the country in hundreds of camps and neighborhoods with most of them concentrated close to the border of their homeland some refugees have been there for decades since the earlier conflicts before 911 and the american arrival and with the imminent if ever delayed political agreement between the united states the taleban the afghan government and other stakeholders on track this could mean that refugees might finally be able to go home but the story is as always more complicated than that. doing what it takes to survive in pakistan have been rocked man fled afghanistan decades ago and is now making clay pots in her report to support his family it's made him financially independent but he says it hasn't made him welcome as a refugee. i'

news coming up after 40 years of afghan refugees in pakistan have peace talks now raised their hopes of returning home. and how global warming and a glacier in pakistan threatens communities in the mountainous regions. plus the minnow of moms sick and tired of drug war killings now taking back the streets. i'm melissa chant welcome to news asia thank you for joining us more than half of the 2700000 afghan refugees in the world live in pakistan they're spread across the country in hundreds of camps and neighborhoods with most of them concentrated close to the border of their homeland some refugees have been there for decades since the earlier conflicts before 911 and the american arrival and with the imminent if ever delayed political agreement between the united states the taliban the afghan government and other stakeholders on track this could mean that refugees might finally be able to go home but the story is as always more complicated than that. doing what it takes to survive in pakistan i've been lucky man fled afghanistan decades ago and is now making clay pots in her report to

care of there than in pakistan because frankly pakistan's health system is in complete shambles and there's a fear if people start arriving then pakistanis will not be able to contain it what has the response been in pakistan itself to their government's unwillingness to actually evacuated citizens. the government has been deeply criticised deals have been written commentators on social media have questioned that you know how can you leave your people in this situation we were just heading from has not just the helpless and standard. but boxed on is saying we have to look at a bigger picture now imagine if your brother or your son was standard that village you pay attention to the government's official point of view not really so many families are perturbed and they are asking the government to have a beating i think we also need to point out here shows of that commercial flights where he's a regular commercial flights have begun landing into pakistan from china some by way of doha and it would appear he's from the tweets of the special advisor to the pakistan prime minister on health that

doing what it takes to survive in pakistan. fled afghanistan decades ago and is now making clay pots in her report to support his family it's made him financially independent but he says it hasn't made him welcome as a refugee. i've been living here for 40 years the police have come here many times but they can't do anything because i support myself. i'll be back man is just one of one half 1000000 afghans currently living in pakistan the make up one of the largest refugee populations in the world. their future was in focus at a u.n. summit in islam about this week to mark 40 years of afghanis fleeing their war torn country. the talks came as the u.s. and taliban appeared close to a deal to end decades of conflict stirring fresh hopes that the refugees could soon return home reducing violence is critical to build confidence and support for the peace process that leads to the loss the settlements and the permanent cease fire. transitions to enabling the peaceful return of these post persons and refugees to their homes. many afgh

in pakistan could lose its. climate change is threatening its chilly harvest the country is one of the world's biggest producers of the asian staple. and benches all in place to business the death toll is around 500 the coronavirus is infected tens of thousands of people worldwide countries continue to take quarantine measures companies located in and around china have been throttling back production and there are concerns about global growth. because its global workforce to take unpaid leave as it tries to deal with the fallout from a coronavirus hong kong based airline is encouraging 27000 employees to take 3 weeks off in the 1st half of the year the carrier has cut 90 percent of its services to the mainland china bosses blamed the outbreak and a significant drop in demand foxconn says it won't be able to return to full production in.

long view of the relationship they have introduced a new tactical dynamic i think pakistan today is far more cognizant of the fact that symmetry options that it had blatantly been exercising over the past few decades are perhaps going to have a cost attached to it the indian response tells pakistan their terrorist action has a conventional response as a possibility amongst various other options that india has 3 introduces a new tactical uncertainty for pakistan whether they're cold or something the time when 10 but i do believe that it was an important moment in introducing a new normal between the 2 but then after that you have the special autonomy of course made at the poles are drawn and that further previous tension there was a downgrading of our diplomatic ties was that necessary has that contributed to ties. you know history will be a good judge of that action i believe something needed to be done in kashmir and you could not have allowed it to continue down the same part as it had in the past 7 decades at some government had to create a new format for the ajman to getting. the pe

to crack down on he says terrorist groups along pakistan's border with india our relationship with pakistan is a very good one thanks to these efforts we are beginning to see signs of big progress with pakistan and we are hopeful for reduce tensions greater stability of the future of harmony for all of the nations of south asia india pakistan nearly came to war last year after india bombed what it said was a terrorist training facility in the mountains of pakistan along the indian border resulting in an escalation in fighting between both countries that came dangerously close to all out war both sides however relented and war was avoided but still it showed the danger of tensions and the risk of an escalation in violence between both nuclear powers president from touring a speech today touted the $3000000000.00 arms deal with india saying he believes the united states should be india's premier defense partner or president trump in the 1st lady also visited the osh room were gandhi lived and of course the famous taj mahal inaugural and despite his comments about working with pakistan which d

to crack down on he says terrorist groups along pakistan's border with india our relationship with pakistan is a very good one thanks to these efforts we are beginning to see signs of big progress with pakistan and we are hopeful for reduce tensions greater stability of the future of harmony for all of the nations of south asia india pakistan nearly came to war last year after india bombed what it said was a terrorist training facility in the mountains of pakistan along the indian border resulting in an escalation in fighting between both countries that came dangerously close to all out war both sides however relented and war was avoided but still it showed the danger. tensions and the risk of an escalation in violence between both nuclear powers president from touring a speech today touted the $3000000000.00 arms deal with india saying he believes the united states should be india's premier defense partner well president trump in the 1st lady also visited the osher room where gandhi lived and of course the famous taj mahal inaugural and despite his comments about working with pakistan whic

to pakistan by the alleged mastermind of the 2008. officer he has been sentenced to 11 years in prison a court in lahore found him guilty of raising money for an alleged terrorist organization he's been sentenced in $2.00 cases of terror financing to 5 and a half years in prison each the prison terms will run concurrently so you've is the founder of the large group or butter group blamed by the united states and india for the $41.00 by siege in 2008 in which 160 people were killed so it has denied any involvement. for more i'm joined. from a d.d. . good to see you lots to talk about but 1st give us a bit of a background of who so you know exactly is. so hard to say this is a 70 year old man he presents himself as a professor as a humanitarian and geraghty worker in the last few years that i was reporting from pakistan every time there was a natural disaster and earthquake or a flood i found his organization and his people were among the 1st responders and that was because david facilitated by the pakistani army he's seen as a strategi

to pakistan where the alleged mastermind of the 2008. has been sentenced to 11 years in prison a court in lahore found him guilty of raising money for an alleged terrorist organization he's been sentenced in $2.00 cases of terror financing to 5 and a half years in prison each the prison term will run concurrently save is the founder of the last group or butter group blamed by the united states and india for the $41.00 by siege in 2008 in which 160 people were killed so it has denied any involvement. for more i'm joined. from a deed. so is it good to see you lots to talk about but 1st give us a bit of a background of who so you know exactly is so hard to say it is a 70 year old man he presented himself as a professor as a humanitarian and geraghty worker in the last few years that i was reporting from pakistan every time there was a natural disaster and earthquake or a flood i found his organization and his people were among the 1st responders and that was because david facilitated by the pakistani army he's seen as a strategic asset by t

push to get more countries to help millions of afghan refugees based in pakistan. to flights evacuating u.s. citizens who are stuck on a cruise ship with hundreds of coronavirus cases on board have now left japan those who are infected are staying behind the ships being quarantined in the port of your karma $355.00 passengers tested positive for the virus among them $44.00 u.s. citizens who were treated in japanese hospitals what china's now confirmed another $105.00 deaths on sunday raising the total number of dead on the mainland to 1770 around 2000 more people have tested positive for the virus and another person has died outside of china a taxi driver in taiwan became the 5th atallah to outside the mainland and elevate chinese tourist in france was the 1st to die outside of asia other deaths have been reported in hong kong japan and the philippines well katrina you joins us live now from beijing katrina said nearly 2000 new cases being reported 105 more deaths just put these numbers into context for us are things getting worse. well definitely we're continuing

pakistan and the u.n. refugee agency are holding a conference to highlight the challenges facing millions of afghan refugees it's estimated more than 2000000 live in pakistan some of been displaced since the 1979 soviet invasion violence makes returning home dangerous but a report for asian program is set to resume next month will commodity joins us live now from so you've been to one of these afghan refugee camps all sort of conditions do people live in and what challenges about facing. we're dead and right now i'm in one of the largest refugee camps which is about 25 kilometers from the shah this is known as shum shut to camp at the height of the wall it had a very large population read their own school their knowledge but there's because there was a lot of international donor money water boarding and however now that camp is reduced to almost 50 percent of its strength many people have gone back to afghanistan others have gone and spread across the country so what we see. conditions there is hardly any

long view of their relationship they have introduced a new tactical dynamic i think pakistan today is far more cognizant of the fact that symmetry options that it had blatantly been exercising over the past few decades are perhaps going to have a cost attached to it the indian response tells pakistan that terrorist action has a conventional response as a possibility amongst various other options that india has to it introduces a new tactical uncertainty for pakistan that they're told is something that i've been 10 but i do believe that it was an important moment in introducing a new normal between the 2 but then after that you had the special autonomy of course made at the poles were drawn and that further previous tension there was a downgrading of our diplomatic ties was that necessary has that contributed to of ties. you know history will be a good judge of that action i believe something needed to be done in kashmir you could not have allowed it to continue down the same path as it had in the past 7 decades at some government had to create a new format for engagement indicating th

like in pakistan where some desperate families push their daughters and sisters to maddie chinese men for money but once in china many brides a big. and despite rights groups raising the alarm pakistani officials to crack down on the trade and a.p. investigation. traced over 600 pakistani brides sold to china over the last 2 years and for many. turns out to be. back with family but broken inside this is somehow david she was trafficked to china and married off to a stranger after just 2 months she returned to pakistan deathly ill. see what i thought of so modern others. very rarely laura. was a very. thoughtful. a month later she was dead. dory is not unique and is part of a disturbing wider trend in human trafficking. chinese men seeking bribes are fueling an illegal but lucrative cross border practice that targets girls and women often from pakistan's impoverished christian minority. the word by the promise of a better life and money for their parents they're told they're going to marry wealthy chinese christians. more often than not they end up in some of china's poorest and conser

to crack down on he says terrorist groups along pakistan's border with india our relationship with pakistan is a very good one thanks to these efforts we are beginning to see signs of big progress with pakistan and we are hopeful for reduce tensions greater stability of the future of harmony for all of the nations of south asia india pakistan nearly came to war last year after india bombed what it said was a terrorist training facility in the mountains of pakistan along the indian border resulting in an escalation in fighting between both countries that came dangerously close to all out war both sides however relented and war was avoided but still it showed the danger of tensions and the risk of an escalation in violence between both nuclear powers president from touring a speech today touted the $3000000000.00 arms deal with india saying he believes the united states should be india's premier defense partner or president trump on the 1st lady also visited the osh room were gandhi lived and of course the famous taj mahal inaugural and despite his comments about working with pakistan which d

pakistan where some desperate families push their daughters and sisters to chinese men for money but once in china many brides are cruelly abused and despite rights groups raising the alarm pakistani officials to crack down on the trade and. traced over 600 pakistani brides sold to china over the last 2 yes and for many. turns out to be a nightmare. back with family but broken inside this is somehow david she was trafficked to china and married off to a stranger after just 2 months she returned to pakistan deathly ill. she what also modern others ready ready ready laureate are guarding. hide and rid. of the very. forcefully. a month later she was dead. sammi a story is not unique and is part of a disturbing wider trend in human trafficking. chinese men seeking brides are fueling an illegal but lucrative cross border practice that targets girls and women often from pakistan's impoverished christian minority. word by the promise of a better life and money for their parents they're told they're going to marry wealthy chinese christians. more often than not they end up in some of china's

there is tension between india and pakistan. president trump offered to be a mediator between india and pakistan. but when you look at the continues between the two leaders, the thing that brings them together probably outway the differences. this is why president trump wants to seek a free trade deal with india. he's been doing trade deals with japan. he has the new trade kindway. he wants to do a trade deal with the european union. when he canceled the asian pacific deal, he said i don't like the amalgamation deals. and that's what he's been doing all the way along. he's been using that to put pressure on the big today hundreda. hundred -- the big kahuna, and that's china. the president will sit down with modi and they will talk about trade and how they can increase the prosperity of both countries. the last time i was here in india was with bill clinton in 1999. the nation has grown by leaps and bounds the last 0 years. a growing middle class and sense of prosperity. not to say there isn't a lot of abject poverty elsewhere an

most of the rivers that flow through pakistan emanate in kashmir and out of god's will become another major dispute the founding father of barges gone normally journal called kashmir jug you know when there is deep resentment here in pakistan and in pakistani administered kashmir about the plight of millions of crushed me really who have been in a state of log down there are frequent cease fire violations according to pakistan by indian forces that both sides are on the words of one. other conflicts if that if you're an order of god it is border nor the bargain danny prime minister recently did in the writer of that dress really be prepared to wear that they want to join india oh bugger it's gone be independent hundreds of people have been airlifted to safety after torrential rain calls flooding in new zealand south island have been downpours in southern areas for days around $500.00 tourists were rescued from the remote milford sound region after a road access was caught rivers are overflowing the power's down civil defense declared a state of emergency and told residents in low lyin

which a link pakistan red bug a county administered kashmir people have come out in large numbers they will be forming a human chain to show their solidarity with the people of kashmir and to remind the international community about their commitments and to take north of the plight of those people who are in a state of log down jimmy iommi and we're standing in solidarity with their brothers and sisters across the border in kashmir so they don't think to let alone from the day when they will have an independent state and freedom from the indian army is the chastity's is not far away but that's also a model muslim on 72 years our loved ones in kashmir have been locked down under a brutal indian regime every day they are tortured and killed but enough is enough it's time to liberate kashmir from indian occupation the indian prime minister now threatening to god of war disobliged to pakistan most of the rivers that flow through pakistan emanate in kashmir and out of god's will become another major dispute delhi india is not going to accept the basic fundamental rights of stores reduce liv

to crack down on he says terrorist groups along pakistan's border with india our relationship with pakistan is a very good one thanks to these efforts we are beginning to see signs of big progress with pakistan and we are hopeful for reduce tensions greater stability of the future of harmony for all of the nations of south asia india pakistan nearly came to war last year after india bombed what it said was a terrorist training facility in the mountains of pakistan along the indian border resulting in an escalation in fighting between both countries that came dangerously close to all out war both sides however relented and war was avoided but still it showed the danger of tensions and the risk of an escalation in violence between both nuclear powers president from touring a speech today touted the $3000000000.00 arms deal with india saying he believes the united states should be india's premier defense partner or president trump in the 1st. he also visited the osher room where gandhi lived and of course the famous taj mahal inaugural and despite his comments about working with pakistan which

still ahead on al-jazeera feeling forgotten the appeal for help for afghan refugees and pakistan. also we take a look at markets painting a different vision of the future. of. how i welcome to look at the international full costs of showers across southeast asia the heaviest of the n.t. malaysia maybe into indonesia as well but we will see some showers just cropping up around the philippines over the next couple days the northeasterly winds driving some showers there into lose on central parts of the country to central and southern parts of vietnam also seeing some rather lively showers from time to time and even down into the southern areas that thailand for a time will see some very wet weather dried day here as we go on through wednesday the wetter weather will be across borneo and indonesia into poppy new guinea a few showers to cross the fall north of australia but the major area of heavy rain still over towards at least the side of the country to see this little clutch of storms here into new south wales that's all sinking a little further south was away some showers that wi

push to get more countries to help millions of afghan refugees based in pakistan. welcomes the program to flights evacuating u.s. citizens who were stuck on a cruise ship with hundreds of coronavirus cases on board have now left japan those who are infected staying behind the ships being quarantined in the port of yokohama $355.00 passengers tested positive for the virus among them $44.00 u.s. citizens will be treated in hospitals in japan what china's confirmed another $105.00 deaths on sunday raising the total number of dead on the mainland to 1770 around 2000 more people have tested positive for the virus and another person has died outside of china a taxi driver in taiwan became the 5th atallah to outside the mainland an elderly chinese tourist in france was the 1st to die outside of asia other deaths have been reported in hong kong japan and the philippines well katrina you joins us live now from beijing katrina so 2000 new cases being reported with 105 more deaths put these numbers into context for us katrina what does this all mean. well daryn you have to re

control less that type of thing that exists in pakistan or the other issue which is i think very very important for all of us and terms of the implications of this electoral crisis on the peace. process is we need to have a government 1st and here we need to have a president we need to have somebody in charge of the africans were tired for the last 5 months of this fiasco has been going on and now finally we have a president and i think with all its problems we need to accept that there is a president but we need to show some sort of with this president. who came. through the. as the winner has to do 3 things 1st form a broad based government. and reach out to different political actors in afghanistan the 2nd thing he needs to do is engage with our neighbors because some of them have serious reservations about some of the policies that our government has been pursuing and the 3rd thing is put peace on a high on the agenda in terms of the interim government no afghan will accept an interim government we are not going back to squares iraq. to square one basically the afghans want some s

parliament and wiki tang's the people of pakistan for their support pakistan has given to turkey whenever there's been a natural disaster and that the cooperation between the 2 was strong on the strategic and political level but he also stressed that they should now be a relationship which should be an economic one as well the pakistanis want to learn from their model the pakistani prime minister are asking his. counterpart to help pakistan in the field of. both countries have a strong strategic relationship they have had military maneuvers together pakistan by a lot of military hardware from that country so indeed an important and fruitful meeting as far as pakistan is concerned and the turkish president also saying they support pakistan on the international forum. in a rare a because donald trump u.s. attorney general william barr has criticized the president's use of twitter a series of tweets by trump called for reduced prison sentence for his close ally. stone his former campaign adviser who's been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and obstruction of justice all 4 fede

pakistan and the un refugee agency are holding a conference to highlight the challenges facing afghan refugees it's estimated more than 2000000 are sheltering in pakistan some of them displaced since the 1979 soviet invasion ongoing violence makes returning home dangerous but a repatriation program is set to resume next month in refugee agency says millions remain displaced from the time of the soviet invasion most are either end pakistan or iran but since 2002 where than 4000000 afghans have chosen to return home under a voluntary repatriate repatriation program the largest the un refugee agency has carried out pakistan is hosting a conference to share the lessons learned and to encourage other countries to share the cost of hosting afghan refugees travel to a refugee camp near the pakistani city of shower and sent us this report. the united nations high commission for refugees and the government of progress on aids or staying a conference that really highlight the plight of the of one refugee and mark over 40 years of their president and focused on progress on it also confronted red

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to crack down on he says terrorist groups along pakistan's border with india our relationship with pakistan is a very good one thanks to these efforts we are beginning to see signs of big progress with pakistan and we are hopeful for reduce tensions greater stability of the future of harmony for all of the nations of south asia india pakistan nearly came to war last year after india bombed what it said was a terrorist training facility in the mountains of pakistan along the indian border resulting in an escalation in fighting between both countries that came dangerously close to all out war both sides however relented and war was avoided but still it showed the danger of tensions and the risk of an escalation in violence between both nuclear powers president from tearing a speech today touted the $3000000000.00 arms deal with india saying he believes the united states should be india's premier defense partner or president trump and a 1st lady also visited the osh room were gandhi lived and of course the famous taj mahal inaugural and despite his comments about working with pakistan which di

most of the rivers that flow through pakistan emanate in kashmir and out of god's will become another major dispute the founding father of barges gone normally journal called kashmir jug you know when there is deep resentment here in pakistan and in pakistani administered kashmir about the plight of millions of crushed me really who have been in a state of log down there are frequent ceasefire violations according to pakistan by indian forces that both sides are on the word of another conflict. if this issue is not resolved it is also important to note that the budgets on a prime minister recently said that they did the right of the question really people to decide whether they want to join india buggiest on o.b. and depending. malawi's president is to appeal against the court ruling overturning his reelection peter months to recover narrowly won a 2nd term last year but months of protests followed over accusations of voter voting rigging vote rigging excuse me on monday judges a no the result saying it had been compromised by vote stuffing and altered ballots and they ordered a new e

in muslim majority pakistan. welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us in japan disability is still a dirty word the country is home to nearly 10000000 people with physical mental or intellectual disabilities but the majority are shunned from society and he didn't from view a decades long law which allow doctors to forcibly sterilized people with disabilities was only abolished in 1906 and although the government has agreed to compensate the victims attitudes behind them no lingo still some progress is being made last year to severely disabled politicians what the 1st to be elected into the country's ollivant. their election has been here and that's progress but it also highlighted a legal loophole that makes it almost impossible for disabled people to work in japan. it was a groundbreaking moment in a country where disability is still very much a taboo in july last year i kokomo are and yes a he cofa not go became the 1st disabled people to win seats in japan's upper house their election was seen by man

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what would your message be to the government of pakistan? translation: to prime minister imran khan i say, whenever something like this happens, it should be properly investigated. innocence should not be punished and innocent people jailed for this should be freed. in a statement, the government of pakistan told us it had taken considerable steps to prevent misuse of the blasphemy law and that minorities are treated as equal citizens. this afternoon asia bibi went to meet president macron. she may be granted asylum here in france or in canada, but this period is one of huge adjustment for her. she told us she isn't sure yet what the future holds. mishal husain, bbc news, paris. prince harry has been visiting abbey road studios in london, wherejon bonjovi has been recording a charity single for the prince's invictus games foundation. it comes as canada confirmed that it won't pay for harry and meghan's security once they officially step down from royal duties next month. nick witchell‘s report contains flash photography. he's packing as mu

secretary of state and foreign ministers from qatar and pakistan under the deal the u.s. and nato say they'll pull out all foreign troops within 14 months if the taliban honors its part of the agreement and that includes a $135.00 day initial period to reduce violence both sides of also agree to exchange as many as up to 6000 prisoners. the u.s. secretary of state might pompei or says the agreement is a crucial 1st step towards peace this agreement will mean nothing and today's good feelings will not last if we don't take concrete actions on commitments and promises that have been made when it comes down to it the future of afghanistan is for afghans to determine the us taliban deal create the conditions for afghans to do just that here's our take here's our take on what steps by the taliban will make this agreement a success. first keep your promises to cut ties with al qaeda and other terrorists . keep up the fight to defeat isis. osama bin jones our correspondent following events for us from that signing of the deal in doha a long time in coming it was on and off for a

be facilitation provided for pakistan. my source took to pump fuel was a business meeting. and he thanked oxfam for the support. and bring of those 5 which have been victimized aka saw this very positive contribution i think we've created to help create and enabling involved. for the alphonse now take the next step which is to sit together. all. reconcile and chopped. a way forward. a way dr king's peace stability of the country to the region and opens up opportunities for for their. kids to. college what do you make of that is the joint declaration which says that focused on dealing with the one by the united states is that something that has been discussed to the pakistan and how we publicize we have nothing to hide. there cross-product and be open so. i was. playing a positive role and you come to do 3 of them all the polls. well the u.s. president donald trump has hailed the agreement saying it will finally end america's longest war and fisher is live for us in washington d.c. alan has us an indication of how the white house is intending to sell this deal with the talib

to fight cancer women in pakistan doing it so cancer patients like now can have their self-esteem back. i asked my mom if it would come back. medics on strike coronavirus pharaoh's gripping their city medics go on strike. for does with me china. time with a woman president in a record number of women in taiwan leads the way for gender equity to government but new m.p.'s see. i'm going to spend a day welcome to. it's good to have you with us breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in pakistan that's according to the wild health organization for the thousands of women coping with that diagnosis each year in the country the emotional support is a crucial part of recovery for many it can be something as simple as regaining lost to chemotherapy correspondent reports. in my head i cried a lot it was very long and beautiful. i mean i asked my mom if it would come back. my hair has now regrowing but it's not the same as it was before. your wardrobe it's a devastating loss but we believe everything is a test from god. to an i.v. line in hospital 52 year old not mine of the charges facin

to pakistan where the alleged mastermind of the 2008. office has been sentenced to 11 years in prison a court in lahore found him guilty of raising money for an alleged terrorist organization he's been sentenced in $2.00 cases of terror financing to 5 and a half years in prison each the prison term will run concurrently so even the founder of the last group or butter group blamed by the united states and india for 40 of them by siege in 2008 in which 160 people were killed so he has denied any involvement. for more i'm going to show their jilani from a deed. so is it good to see you lots to talk about but 1st give us a bit of a background of who so you know exactly is. so hard to say this is a 70 year old man he presented himself as a professor as a humanitarian and geraghty worker in the last few years that i was reporting from pakistan every time there was a natural disaster and earthquake or a flood i found his organization and his people were among the 1st responders and that was because david facilitated by the pakistani army he's s

a rarity in muslim majority pakistan. instead of clay he fashions the statues from a mixture of sand and cement it's a passion the retired school teacher came to later in life marrying his offer form and geometry. in the arts you must have good knowledge in many subjects for instance the arts also have a lot to do with mathematics. and the form he comes back to again and again hindu idols. his faith hindu islam is the main religion in this region close to the border with india. the. work is related to temples where are the worship is allowed. so far i haven't done any work for the muslim community. here. it takes him 10 days to finish a simple statue but more complex designs can take many weeks. but. there are these other statues of radha and krishna. they will take at least a month to finish. after that i'll hand them over to the clients who showcase them in hindu temples. inducing muslims have long lived peaceably side by side in this region of pakistan . a religious harmony similar hopes his statues will continue to in

what would your message be to the government of pakistan? translation: to prime minister imran khan i say, whenever something like this happens, it should be properly investigated. innocence should not be punished and innocent people jailed for this should be freed. in a statement, the government of pakistan told us it had taken considerable steps to prevent misuse of the blasphemy law and that minorities are treated as equal citizens. this afternoon, asia bibi went to meet president macron. she may be granted asylum here in france or in canada, but this period is one of huge adjustment for her. she told us she isn't sure yet what the future holds. mishal husain, bbc news, paris. that is it from me. tuesday watching. hello. friday brought more rain to areas which didn't need it. another 10—15mm fell across shropshire. around a0mm of rain fell in around 12 hours in cardiff. meanwhile, across scotland, further snow. through the weekend, parts of the highlands could see another 20—30cm of snow, and all eyes this weekend are on this area of

feeling forgotten the appeal for help for afghan refugees in pakistan. and the historic ruling in india women will now be allowed to service officers in the military. after several days of declining figures the number of new corona virus infections in china has risen again really 2000 more people are reported infected on sunday the virus is down claimed 1770 lives on china's mainland forcing some cities to tighten controls even further than a city with more than 2500 cases of the virus has gone into complete lockdown it comes as the u.s. has begun evacuating hundreds of people from the diamond princess cruise ship and japan 14 of those evacuated were put and containment on the flight to the united states after they were confirmed to have the virus and in hong kong there's been reports of panic buying and one instance armed robbers stole hundreds of toilet paper rolls store clark joins us now from hong kong so sara what else can you tell us about these 14 confirmed cases of u.s. citizens having run a virus. this is an extraordinary and unfortunate situati

what would your message be to the government of pakistan? translation: to prime minister imran khan i say, whenever something like this happens, it should be properly investigated. innocence should not be punished and innocent people jailed for this should be freed. in a statement, the government of pakistan told us it had taken considerable steps to prevent misuse of the blasphemy law and that minorities are treated as equal citizens. this afternoon asia bibi went to meet president macron. she may be granted asylum here in france or in canada, but this period is one of huge adjustment for her. she told us she isn't sure yet what the future holds. mishal husain, bbc news, paris. prince harry has been visiting abbey road studios in london, wherejon bonjovi has been recording a charity single for the prince's invictus games foundation. it comes as canada confirmed that it won't pay for harry and meghan‘s security once they officially step down from royal duties next month. nick witchell‘s report contains flash photography. he's packing as

backed as well and pakistan is central to the narrative. there's a tendency to look at the iranian resolution the next day in isolation had affected iran or how that affects the role in the region but there's not enough effort to look at how it rippled across the region and how the sunni world reacted and interacted with it and other countries because initially they were not all negative. a lot of people admired for some people admired how he managed to rise on top and bring a theocracy to power in iran. the fact that i have pointed out 1979 is the crucial turning point was i found everywhere i asked a question told me about 1979 account of the reactions were very much to my thesis because i was met with a flood of emotions. when i asked people in pakistan or egypt tell me about 1979. out came all their memories and emotions and everything that they kept almost bottled up. this was a question that no one asked them before because it isn't easy when you are living in such a people to really come to terms with and analyze what you're going th

but there are concerns whether pakistan's health facilities can cope if the virus spreads its densely populated communities priyanka gupta dizzier. thailand's government survived a vote of no confidence called by the opposition the balls followed 4 days of debates when prime minister pro john or john his governments were accused of corruption and abuse of power. republicans are using a arjen rather a tactical vote in these south carolina democratic primary in the united states they're encouraging people to back bernie sanders believe in the socialist cancer bates president donald trump and the gallagher reports from charleston. we. have the right crazy. senator bernie sanders has built a strong coalition across the u.s. making him the current front runner in a still crowded democratic field unlike all the primaries so far though south carolina's is open it's supposed to encourage those without party affiliation to take part it also means republicans can cast their vote for a democrat some conservative activists a calling it operation chaos and they set their sights on the candidate th

pakistan denied responsibility war was imminent. the assailant lived in this small quiet village we went to visit his father who makes his living here as a vegetable farmer. also i write my son's name was a deal. he left us one spring day in 20 minutes. it took off on his bike so we thought he was just going for a ride. he was gone for about a month and then he turned up with some photographs. well that's when we realized that he joined the militants. and we could already imagine what was going to happen to him. when i think about it now i still get upset about. what drove him to do that. but i think it all started after he attended a political rally. that. the army arrested him and pushed his head into his own spit. out reached him and that anger stayed with him. he felt humiliated that they would do that to him in front of so many people it was then that's their got out there like afterwards he asked again and again why would they humiliate us like that once again. all parents have dreams for their children. to try to raise them r

lot of but no i will come to your question but i would like to say that if pakistan is doing anything it's because of they need to do it because they are the source of the problem and they have been for a brain many many years and that's why hundreds of keeps traveling to g.h.q. and talking to you know the chief of ok need to i don't particularly want to get into it you know as well as the relationship between the taliban in afghanistan and the taliban in pakistan and who gets sanctuary where that's a different discussion which we have had on this channel and i dare say will have it again symbolic coming back to you assuming that these 2 men ashraf ghani and abdullah abdullah can work together is there another dynamic that they have to be aware of rewind to the election 56 months ago 2000000 people cast their votes but democracy is not alive and well in afghanistan because potentially 1600000 people could cast their vote so there's something very wrong there to start with i think i'll come back to my r.d. appointed sponsor and there's that you know that was it not just in pakistan and

appointed once and there's that you know that was it not just in pakistan i mean around the world this state where does actually the u.s. state or does the you that i've been back up believe god and other people look they've been barred specially the european a lot of european partners that like the germans everyone was not the opinion that time wasn't ready because of the problems that you pointing out because of the problems with how the democratic system has been unfolding last 15 yards and i mean on its not really the floor of the dolphins it's basically trying to build a democratic system within a conflict zone within along what is on these problems are quite indefinite because of those shortcomings elections should not have happened and because they will was . it is that there are reasons which was why i was more elections should have happened elections should have happened and what not i want to intervene here because the elections should happen it's not for the neighbors it's not for the neighbors and. elections should and i think that afghanistan undermine our constitution. an

a bomb wouldn't destroy it as much as this but it's having a knock down effect on our businesses in pakistan the prices have gone up and people can't afford to buy. rearranges his products to keep himself busy but he like many small business owners is worried i would be in one or 2 these markets ones brimming with customers but the quarantine issue in china is affecting the supply of chinese goods in pakistan people can buy expensive products especially as they're already under stress because of inflation here chinese ambassador to pakistan yeah washing says the coronavirus outbreak will have no impact on the implementation timelines of projects under the $62000000000.00 china pakistan economic chorizo or the belts and road initiative by the extended closure of factories in the world's 2nd largest economy china has disrupted the global supply chain and. every morning i come to my shop in the hope that there will be some business activity but now it's just a dream as markets are deserted. shop owners here are worried they say they're not sure if they'll be able to afford the rent of their sho

later accompanied by lady mountbatten the viceroy came to launch the dominion of pakistan. one set of people saying that religion should be the determinant of nationhood that was the idea of pakistan and they created a country for india's muslims on the basis that their religion determined a nationhood whereas the other set of people said no religion cannot determine the from whom we have fought for the rights of everybody and we are going to create a free country for everybody right from the very start that foundational difference define the difference between the idea of india and the idea of pakistan and the idea of india i'm describing has been followed by every other political party in the last 70 years bar the b.g.p. and its ally the ships in. the ruling party agenda of party or p j p was born in the 1980 s. and it's him or hindu nationalist politics 6 jans and put this as being indian religions but considers islam and christianity as invaders from outside. this brand of identity politics has seen it rise steadily to power a rise that has come at the expense of muslim

if been detained before in pakistan what do you think would happen if you did go back. let's cornered by i mean i was abducted i was not to taint this was not nothing illegal. and of course if i go back my night will be under serious threat which it is even here because they're pursuing the even in the u.k. that put your situation in context you for example been tweeting about new government rules on social media tell us about that. that's hilarious actually you know what's new media whose specific you mention bieber by the sonny and engine residing abroad quite restraint it that we have to reach and for that they want to force i don't know how they think they can do that force international internet and social media companies to design to open and register offices and be physically present and then describe. the same penalty as huge spending say 500000000 rupees if if those companies then i dare do not. block out going down and our accounts. this is a this is part of an ongoing crackdown which started at least 34 years of all they have to. go mainstream digital media i

what would your message be to the government of pakistan? translation: to prime minister imran khan i say, whenever something like this happens, it should be properly investigated. innocence should not be punished and innocent people jailed for this should be freed. in a statement, the government of pakistan told us it had taken considerable steps to prevent misuse of the blasphemy law and that minorities are treated as equal citizens. this afternoon, asia bibi went to meet president macron. she may be granted asylum here in france or in canada, but this period is one of huge adjustment for her. she told us she isn't sure yet what the future holds. now onto the democratic race to take on donald trump in the 2020 election. former vice presidentjoe biden has a lot riding on tomorrow's critical primary in south carolina. in order to stay competitive in this race he is counting on a resounding win. barbara plett usher is in south carolina. this isjoe this is joe biden this isjoe biden country, south carolina, a southern state he cannot afford to