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india on high alert says a religious guru who claims to have millions of followers worldwide is fund guilty of rape. hello and welcome in peter w. watching al-jazeera life from doha also coming up the french president emmanuel mcewan proposes a new iran deal based on the existing agreement one that the us president donald trump has repeatedly threatened to pull out off. we have an exclusive report from the north korean side of the demilitarized zone ahead of a rare meeting between leaders from north and south. and fighting malaria we look at the new campaign against the disease that kills millions of people most of them in africa.

a self-styled indian religious leader who claims to have millions of followers has been found guilty of rape was convicted of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old girl at one of his spiritual retreats and twenty thirteen the indian security forces have been put on high alert in the northern states of russia stop following a fee as the case may provoke violent protests his pull to judge yet. known for his extravagant and sometimes strange costumes also on bapu or bapuji as he's known has disciples around the world and in hundreds of hindu religious retreats known as. gurus such as a psalm say they meet people spiritual needs but some are accused of exploiting their followers for money property and sex by offering them a one stop shop for everything you have being you have you have spiritual family

problem this man recall the us saddam was arrested by police investing. getting the rape of a sixteen year old girl in raja stein the seventy seven year old responded to an exorcism request from her parents who believe she was possessed by evil spirits after us i was charged his followers protested and scuffled with police up with the allegations made against completely false and there is no truth in it is not alone he has millions of followers who support him and will continue to do so us our own supporters say the guru practices black magic and can instantly transform fortunes but the guru has also been linked to the mutilation of four young boys in an alleged ritual. many in india have called for tough legal action against him and other self professed god men so we demand his ass shot his religious center be seized by the government he should be put behind bars and

all his property throughout india no matter what it is should be sentenced a solemn as forty six year old son not a on are also accused of other crimes including the rape of two sisters over a period of ten years in the city of swat. police said saddam's son admitted the sex assaults and fathering a child with one of his victims but nearly all witnesses in the rape case changed their mind about testifying fearing expulsion from the community at least two witnesses were shot and killed that case is continuing these kind of. dying have a lot of political patronage. various political in india who. are doing election time who have become all powerful and a good to lead and. they are above the law prosecutors are fighting back by using laws passed for the protection of children against sex offenders to stop

religious leaders such as god men from breaking the law paul chowder john al-jazeera who is a journalist who's been following the case against saddam he joins us on skype from the northwestern indian city of georgia paul with a court delivered that verdict which can he appeal against this. of course has several up in theft but at the same time. there's high chances that he may not be in there for. a while in the end because there are several other cases pending against him. and the authorities are anticipating trouble on the streets. yes they have been anticipating trouble because a few more than all of us stood off coupon seventeen there was a verdict against another board man who had old sausage shouldn't i exploited his followers and go on that occasion in a different city it doesn't stick there was a lot of violence that was you know people were shunned by the producer to rules

for force in order to contain the security issues and here it actually i see that we have actually been more active and they have tried to contain the violence as much as possible they've tried to put in the law and order situation as much as possible which is it's about him that seems to historically have made him such a divisive figure. you know the divisiveness has come aboard much later. one would see that initially when he was when he started gaining popularity. there was nor were there on so many divisions out there on so many sections that were against him it was more important judges of fact to see who has to against him in two thousand and eight that people actually started taking an interest in signing was god man is what he's about and then slowly other charges started happening alternate i'm told thirteen this that the case which has been decided. a complaint was registered on this case and does this play into the

broader debate in india about sexual crimes being committed against minors being committed against children we were discussing this week or in the last week here on this channel. so i want to know what you would have discussed but you know of course it's been off for us it's been of great concern it's something that the society is grappling with right now and. people are just being lost people are having discussions they're engaging in. because of the situation almost in general all was required in fact the conviction that has happened pretty is under the p.r.c.'s a lot of the protection of children against sexual senses and this is one of the first major kind of should there be hundreds of other convictions but this is the first major conviction in there that law is again. there's going to be some more evolution recently they've tried to look at. the government has looked at introducing our debts been there for. you know where to live in below twelve years

have been sexually assaulted so there are obvious things which are happening and. i mean if this is a judicial decision not a government but this has been the judiciary which vision is going to. fall in this i wonder facts and despite all the smoke that has been torn to the face of the judiciary they have convicted him ok ocean image and in india thanks very much. france has proposed negotiating a new deal with iran building on the twenty fifteen agreement to curb its nuclear program the president emanuel michael has made that offer to the u.s. president donald trump who has threatened to pull out of the deal my home is on a state visit to the us from washington. u.s. president donald trump welcomed french president emmanuel macron to the white house with a state dinner to celebrate the bond between the two nations. what appears to be

a warm friendship was on full display earlier in the day trump even somewhat oddly decided to white dandruff off mccrossin shoulders we have to make him broker he is perfect but as the parent barked on the substance of their bilateral meeting from had a stern warning for iran they restart their nuclear program they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before his statement underscores the leader's key foreign policy differences truck favors was drawing from the iran nuclear deal as one of the signatories to it mccraw and was to preserve the twenty fifteen agreement to limit tehran's nuclear powers before may deadline on whether to pull the u.s. out or not trump wants his concerns addressed those include a plan to stop iran's ballistic missile testing and limit iran's influence in iraq yemen levit on and syria a chronic greed they may need to address those issues to keep the deal alive. news

on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that are included. trump again suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability as security following the defeat of eisel the countries that. are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump had agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel live aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is instill in him and him it doesn't come from europe and not even from friends the meeting between u.s. president donald trump and french president emanuel mccraw has highlighted key

policy differences between the two leaders their divisions mccraw may address on wednesday before a joint session of the u.s. congress can really help that al-jazeera at the white house well the u.s. president on the trunk did warn tehran of bigger problems if it restarts its nuclear program the iranian foreign minister said his country may abandon the deal if the u.s. pulls out we've said that the united states has not lived up to its to its side of the bargain that is to its commitments to lift certain sanctions not to impede. economic relations between iran and its economic partners it has done all of that it has prevented. basically dissuade threatened companies from engaging with iran so the economic benefits of the of the nuclear have not been at the level that had been promised. and the opposition in armenia is holding another

protest rally after the cancellation of planned talks with the governing party it wants a transitional government and new elections after the prime minister. resigned robin for a walk or reports now from the capital you're about. armenians were back on the streets of the capital. this time to commemorate the armenian victims of mass killings in one hundred fifteen by the ottoman turks it's an annual occasion but after weeks of street protests ending with monday's dramatic resignation of prime minister said assad and his cabinet the pilgrimage this year feels different you have to show for elderly people more excited today's commemoration has an added level of significance. this is something completely different it's like people broke free of their chains today armenians have gathered as they do every year to

remember their past but for the last two weeks they have been gathering by their thousands for political change change which may finally have a rival. the leader of the opposition movement which forced from power joyed with the people to pay his respects or choose them they call pressure is the hero of this self-styled the revolution he says the movement now has a popular mandate to form a transitional government and he has made those demands to sightsee ads governing party the only. only king for what she should. carry be a peaceful. and full transition of power. and that. so the republican party still dominates the politics really it's willing to accept that our desire to change the bill that revolution is set to

be tape its movement to reverse the walker. that. american armenians have also been remembering the mass killing the string world war one thousands marched in los angeles to remember the estimated one point five million people who died under the ottoman empire demonstrators carrying signs that read nine hundred fifteen never again. people around the world have been attending services to mark and zach day remembering australian and new zealand troops served in the first world war. april twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred fifteen was when thousands of troops landed on the beach on the peninsula in turkey it's estimated more than fifty six thousand australian and new zealand soldiers died during the campaign against turkey still to come here on al-jazeera and the polls earthquake three years on thousands of survivors are still waiting for new homes. also ahead bearing

a heavy load we mean desperate migrants you've already traveled a long way trying to get to the united states. spraying into western europe we have got blustery showers rattling in from the atlantic fresh air while the colder weather we are certainly looking a little bit wetter weather is welcome for the south there is some fine weather install high pressure there across a good pos of france a pleasant sunshine here will see temperatures from seventeen celsius that for paris a well down in recent values you see the winds coming in from the west or even the northwest the direction pushed by the north fourteen degrees there for london got some wet weather that just making its way across southern areas the spine into the southeast over towards the valley areas it will be pretty unsettled unsettled

sucrose know the jammy potent up towards the baltic states into that western side of russia come further south still funny dry temperatures getting up into the high twenty's because touching twenty nine celsius on thursday the shabby rain will sink a little further south which in ages by this day's much of northern europe seeing some of that wet and windy weather its highs but some pleasant sunshine in between is going to be a little blustery there as i said still some wet weather there down towards the fos out west of europe the western side of the med and some of that rain will affect northern parts of morocco about a twenty one south to some wednesday with some shabby right right edges a little further race was for thursday algeria's seventeen.

welcome back you with al-jazeera live from doha your headline so far this half hour a self-styled indian religious leader who claims to have millions of followers has been found guilty of rape as a ram was convicted of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old girl at one of his spiritual retreats in twenty thirteen indian security forces have been put on high alert in the northern state of russia start

following fears the case may provoke violent protests. the french president has proposed negotiating a new deal with iran that builds on the twenty fifteen agreement to curb its nuclear program emmanuel mccall made the pitch to the u.s. president on trump who has threatened to pull out of the original deal. the opposition in armenia is holding another rally they want snap elections following the resignation of the prime minister. after widespread protests this comes as tens of thousands of people marched to remember the mass killing of armenians during the first world war. now the leaders of north and south korea are due to hold their first direct meeting in more than a decade on friday they're expected to discuss bringing the korean war to an official end the meeting will take place on the southern side of the truce village panmunjom we have two reports in a moment kathy novak reports from the summit venue but first our diplomatic editor james bays has this exclusive look at the demilitarized zone from the north.

it takes over two hours to drive from the north korean capital pyongyang through the countryside to the d.m.z. the demilitarized zone. the road is bumpy but very quiet it's also in places extremely wide one pyongyang resident speculated to me this was so aircraft could land with reinforcements in the event of conflict once we reached the d.m.z. security was tight we were not permitted to film in certain areas our guide was a north korean army captain he showed us the layout of this frontline zone this is not an international border the korean war officially never ended it was simply paused with an armistice or truce is it possible for you to show us where the meeting on the twenty seventh will be taking place between field-marshal kim and the president of south korea. to you it's the peace house on the southern side so

this is the first time any of your leaders garma cross to the southern side. is that. yes we continued on the route that the north korean leader will take for his historic meeting on friday past the building where the one nine hundred fifty three armistice was negotiated and the hall where it was signed by the north koreans and by a u.s. general on behalf of his country and their allies fighting under the u.n. flag it's estimated that in just three years up to three million people were killed as a professional soldier how hard is it going to be with your field marshal sitting down with those that have been your enemy going to atlantic is a key if dear supreme marshal is with us surely all the problems will be solved peacefully and that's what we firmly believe and we were taken on to a tall

a building and up some stairs where you could view the line that separates communist north korea from democratic south korea. from the north we have this vantage point of the demarcation line the blue hot stone there where in the past military officials from this country have met the other side and just over that building is where the historic summit is supposed to take place. this is also being suggested as a place where kim jong un could meet donald trump no venue for that planned meeting has yet been formally announced the leaders of countries whose forces have been facing off against each other for decades will soon be meeting face to face james bays out zero on the north korean side of the de-militarized. we're often reminded that the two koreas remain technically at war an armistice not a peace treaty ended hostilities in one thousand nine hundred fifty three and it

was signed here at the joint security area at panmunjom the two sides agreed then to establish the four kilometer buffer zone between north and south known as the demilitarized zone or d.m.z. it's still heavily guarded on both sides and has been the site of tensions over the years north korean soldiers killed two u.s. army officers in one nine hundred seventy six landmines injured south korean soldiers and twenty fifteen and late last year a north korean defector what's shot by fellow north korean troops as he ran across the border not far from where i'm standing. this year as relations improved between the two koreas this village has once again been used as a venue for high level talks within the d.m.z. the military demarcation line marks the actual border between north and south in this room when i walk over to this side of the table i'm crossing into north korea so it was significant when earlier this year

a delegation from the north stepped over the border for talks after two years in which there had been no official communication between the two countries and when north korean leader kim jong un meets south korea's president at the end of the month the meeting will be held in peace house on the southern side it will be the first time a north korean leader steps on south korean soil since the korean war. dozens of migrants from central america who have captured the attention and the anger of donald trump of the gonna arriving at the u.s. border with mexico and asylum seekers will eventually turn themselves into the u.s. border authorities reports now from. more than one hundred central american migrants have arrived at the us mexico border for many of these men women and children the journey has been the ultimate test of physical and mental resilience. the most difficult thing has been traveling on the train because the children became seriously ill some of them fainted so you see it's difficult

after traveling for a month from honduras carlos and his family are tired hungry and anxious think that i will. each one of us here has a story and each one of us has a case to make we've traveled all the way here with our families because we all have something bad that's happened in our lives and. these new arrivals are part of a larger group of migrants seeking asylum in the united states most say they're fleeing violence or persecution in their own countries including hundred el salvador and guatemala. and the vast majority who want to get across and seek political asylum some with attorneys that are helping them prepare to but to answer questions when interviewed by u.s. immigration officials in the united states the department of homeland security announced recently that any illegal entries into the country by members of this migrant group will be referred for prosecution i know you know that now if you want to the asylum seekers are being helped by immigration activists and charity

volunteers who are providing temporary shelter medical aid and food but their journey doesn't end here many central american migrants who have arrived at the border plan to turn themselves in to u.s. authorities in the coming days but the process for seeking asylum in the united states can be long and has no guarantees for many the next step is still unknown and up. to one. thousands of survivors of a massive earthquake in the powell three years ago are still in makeshift shelters they say the government has not lived up to its promise to provide them with permanent homes his sabina stressed. from the air and basket this looks like any other but all these huts have flimsy walls made of tar polina sheets and bamboo when the magnitude seven point eight earthquake shook this part of the world three years ago nine thousand people died almost four thousand of them were from sun the district one hundred and fifty two families took

shelter on this hill top. meyer dongs willage is a day's walk from here so our house was swallowed by the river curate impossible to sit inside during the summer in the winter it's cold and damp and when the wind blows we are sometimes afraid that i leave my get blown away on it almost eight hundred thousand homes were damaged by the queen each family qualifies to receive three thousand dollars for rebuilding but so far only one hundred nineteen thousand families have a permanent home the rest remain in temporary shelters mired dongs family are qualified for the grant except they have nowhere to build because experts say their villages are unsafe geologists have identified more than eighty families here who can no longer return to their villages the government has said that they are going to resettle them but the process is extremely long as the decision to allocate land

has to be made by the kaput. across the country to do hundred eighty six areas are identified as high risk servants work lake damage around four thousand families need permanent relocation they are frustrated with the delays and so they government representatives that we've been elected for just around a year and we've processed all the documents necessary for this area the problem is the country system runs a very slow. the government estimates ten billion dollars would be needed to really get the country not soft at the quake donors have pledged four billion dollars for reconstruction but the government says that the money has not been handed over yet incredible baskets. i was of the pledge amount we already have agreements for two point six billion dollars we're not in a position to say that there's a budget crunch and we can't give any help we're committed to rebuilding as soon as possible. local government leaders want to build a model that is here but when

a party is living under these sheets they just hope that by next winter walls will protect them from the wind and rain. as is even worse in the district and. at least fifteen people have been killed in flooding across kenya major highways are being cut off leaving commuters stranded there are calls for the government to fix the drainage system which is under pressure from urbanization and a growing population. three african countries will soon start rolling out the world's first malaria vaccine last year more than two hundred million people around the world were affected by the disease ninety percent of those cases were in africa kenya ghana and malawi will be among the first nations to try out the vaccine for me the miller now reports from kenya as soon county. a mother brings a six year old son to this clinic in western kenya looking for help. at twenty one kilograms he's underweight and can barely stand on his own he has severe malaria

his mother says he's been sick before but it's never been this bad. that he has been sick this morning he woke up in a very high fever and started vomiting he also has diarrhea so we rushed him to the clinic. another mother says both the children to have been ill for days children under the age of five are most at risk of contracting and dying from malaria clinics sees about forty patients a day many of them diagnosed with the disease the high temperatures and stagnant water in this area mean mosquitoes which can carry and pass on malaria are able to breed easily half the people living in this area have malaria the rainy season has just begun here in kisumu county and that's normally when the number of malaria cases increase dramatically a pilot program to vaccinate almost a quarter of a million people in areas just like this one will begin later this year the vaccine

trains the immune system to attack the malaria parasite and it's hoped it will potentially save tens of thousands of lives especially as some strains of malaria are resistant to drug treatment we are going to stick that out we are dealing with a very clever prosecutor dealing with that also look clever was because that develop resistance to all chemicals in success that we developed. but over the last twenty years we have seen the number of cases drastically drop in africa while the number of malaria cases have dropped by as much as seventy percent in some places in kenya the world health organization says twenty seven thousand malaria report says last year there were about five million more cases of malaria globally compared to the year before and that more than four hundred twenty thousand people globally died of the disease that year ninety percent of those cases occurred in

africa is now hope that a successful rollout of the vaccine across three african countries will mean fewer deaths for me to malone al-jazeera kisumu county kenya. recapping our top stories for you so far today a self-styled indian religious leader who claims to have millions of followers has been found guilty of rape as saddam was convicted of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old girl at one of his spiritual retreats and twenty thirteen which is a journalist who's been following the case he says the conviction comes as india toughens up its laws against rape the conviction that has happened pretty is under the p.r.c.'s a lot for the protection of children against section of instance and this is one of the first major conviction that have been hundreds of other convictions but this is the first major conviction in there that law is again. this going to be some more

evolution recently they've tried to look at. the government has looked at introducing our debts been there for. you know back to living below twelve years have been sexually assaulted. the french president has proposed negotiating a new deal with iran that builds on the twenty fifteen agreement to curb its nuclear program emmanuel mccall made the pitch to the u.s. president donald trump who's threatened to pull out of the deal micron's on a state visit to the united states. the opposition in armenia is holding another rally they want snap elections following the resignation of the prime minister. after widespread protests this comes as tens of thousands of people marched to remember the mass killing of armenians during the first world war. people around the world been attending services to mark and zach day remembering australian and new zealand forces who served in the first world war. april the twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred fifteen was when thousands of

troops landed on the peninsula in turkey it's estimated more than fifty six thousand australian and new zealand soldiers died during that campaign. at least fifteen people have been killed in flooding across kenya and major highways have been cut off leaving commuters stranded there are calls for the government to fix the drainage system which is under pressure from urbanization and the growing population more heavy rain is in the forecast up next it's inside story i will see you very soon but bye for now. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current events that matter to you al-jazeera. all world leaders doing enough to stop the war in yemen the united nations condemns the killing of waving party guests in an

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