she says typically inside the statues are scrolls of tibetan prayers items collectors would pay a fortune for. so was this chimney. this big and say do. we go deeper into the monastery. oh. so this is the going home which means the room of the protector diety and the protector and artist room ensures that don't want to strew say that it is six thirty in the monastery and the villages around so is the most powerful room in the monastery absolutely. the irony here is that these stadiums were created to protect the monastery but now they themselves need protecting. them all the overall bone wall was younger more during the. cold war. the. later outside and as monks carry out what they came to do.

holding special ceremony asking for higher powers to keep the monastery and its guards. but. when you think say about those who steal these things do you think he's angry. with. the goat is somebody who is standing on things is their own karma what impact would you say all these thefts is having on but it's. all for. their own it's very sad news for out of school because in the not in tandem honestly. but i think. more engine the things are in their lives just places of worship the more stories

and histories. of their worship have been passed down for generations and so people just have more faith you know and when it's gone of course the faith has also gone . we want to track down those robbing the pall of its spiritual treasures. so we've come to the country's capital kathmandu. it's here we're told dealers do need legal antiquity by their trade. posing as buyer and wearing it in cameras we enter a store on packman do's most expensive state test which is no mistake. this was shown to a backroom five are you just think it's interesting. the way this is. just . this is the one.

we soon see has far more than one or two pieces. and they are all ancient but what timeline would you place that this is the fourteenth fifteenth. fourteenth to fifteenth century. in nepal selling artifacts more than one hundred years old is a crime. these to. describe these seventy to sixty five. seventy thousand he introduces himself as deepak shot you and says his family has been dealing in antiques for generations all this business started by making them part of. birth disinvite through their father how many years then altogether for the family sixty five seventy s sixty five seventy years the one. person shop in the new. no our shop come on in the first one deepak

also says his grandfather was called on by nepal's keen to sell to royal visitors of the country even by. my grandfather and his grandfather in both of. under this. we pressed him on how he smuggled antiques out of the country what about papers and shipping. by law the country's department of archaeology cannot issue export papers on items more than one hundred years old by deepak says he has a tried and proven way so government no problem getting these out and we have to give some money. ok. it is not legal. but still likely we can get a stand up for. and according to deepak shakira he's contacts include some of the

world's top dealers auction houses and museums many pieces. i have. and i have many dealers. in. new york last ten fifteen years before many christie is the set of these. many comes here so i already. dealers where it. so like ruben museum yes yes. mostly my father has a lot of oh really ok christy's and so because i have let me thank you very much much michel really a pleasure meeting you like you know much. we leave promising to return. and take what we've been covered to police. director. nice to meet you

hi how are you going steve from al-jazeera pushpa. pushkar kharkiv heads the central investigation bureau we suppose equivalent to the f.b.i. he's keen to see our evidence. for. it. so in this case he was referring to the department of archaeology as i understand he is differently because you cannot do this. he knows what the laws are he knows. he has to meet fake documents or just with them he knows and is clearly doing that he has to bribe what are your thoughts. well this is something if you ask me frankly speaking the police thousand looked at least in this stuff yet how surprised are you that this sort of operation is going on right here in katmandu

i'm very surprised i mean aware of it it's our i do admit that we should have been more proactive in this is that enough for your you know for my force to it is this enough. i mean. what if you. by next morning push cars assembled a team led by his deputy could be cut or. maybe even the day everyday. either you get a lot of good hope that each of these. twenty officers have spent the night planning a raid into you office it's ok it's ok ok it goes. stupid yes they. get to be in the scope. of this you go and. we've been asked to help by again posing as buyers. our role is to confirm the

dealer still hasn't for sale no thanks so much we're not doing as undercover officers take their positions. and for the story. hello. columbus day. good to see you get this back in a shop we again meet with deepak shakira. the one that he says he sold some of the items including the one that cost sixty five thousand dollars. but not all of this from the store here ok he's also acquired new ones including some hindu artifacts so this is put in temples read those are going to is temples or doorways . have been confirmed at check you still has idols for sale in america because i signal cabinets and his men. they move in on this thing no mistake. i mean what looks to these few you want to buy

a house on just what you're good i'm just looking to serve what he has. throughout the store authorities uncover it in artifacts i have to share. with you you got to try to go. over the course of the day investigators raid three stores in katmandu all belonging to the shakya family they seized more than one hundred teens. deepak shakira and two others are brought into police headquarters and charged with trafficking. they face up to five years in jail. but it went well my guys are still on the double vision that something needed to produce. it well it was a good operation. there's a lot of activities. if you're by use there's

a network with good weight and so these a long trip. c.r.b. director kharkiv waste little time in rattling that chain of illegal trade or garment a talking out of the. at a press conference he shows off the illegal and take what he seized. and confirms nepalese police are investigating deep that shockey is shippers and customers there's a prize in. your account of how it's all going to prices were by going to the restaurants any. other engine are black that's all you can image of a wheel. and one of those museums the police confirmed is being investigated is the ruby in new york. home to one of the most outstanding collections of himalayan antiquities in the world. so this is your section on the paul exactly this hour florida features the master works from the collection we're here in the region where we talk about your abridged heads the museum and agrees to

show us around. the reuben has more than three thousand eight hundred himalayan works of art in its collection. including some of the finest copper and bronze statues in the world this is really quite amazing piece of craftsmanship there's a sense of power and movement yet it's it's really got this sense of monumental call and how did the rubin come to find this piece this piece has a law a history as i recall and being in the west already it was i believe in the sixty's that that it was in the u.s. and then was was collected by the by several collectors in fact before it entered the collection of the reuben family and was that while most of the collection is displayed in typical museum fashion in one room the reuben has also built a shrine because that's what those paintings were painted for what's the. sculptures were created for is you know to serve

a living tradition their visitors get a true cultural experience but what about the now believes who once worship these icons. should items be returned back to the country i don't think i'm going to add to that i don't have a good answer you don't have going to for that because it's a very you know saying this faith show it's very hard and that's not the only question he finds hard to answer in nepal authorities recently arrested a number of antique dealers has the reuben museum done any dealings with. shock you or his family to shock us i don't think we should house for that. the museum's p.r. person intervene. you let me. see if you want to play it. would be here to be sure it was just a raid back but that's. a few days

later of the rubin email to say to their best knowledge they don't have any connection nor objects from. them and they have strong guidelines against buying items known or suspected to be stolen. christie's in some would be also both denied selling any stolen artifacts and state they have no record of ever having dealt with the shock your family. back in. touch he says he doesn't fully blame museums or collectors i believe that not every museum or not every private collectors realize that their collections are some artifacts that they have been stolen you know because of because it's a very long process on how these artifacts are stolen and how to travel to different parts of the word but no matter who's responsible it's estimated that more than eighty percent of all the poles religious artifacts have been stolen and

sold abroad. into places around populations. to ensure what remains of most done stays here in the demolition of your. cache is now training months in this village monastery to protect their gods there were several of them germans are there and we're trying to record all this metal statues shoes the ritualized. the foremost importance is that we have a database that has a proper record of our belongings you know and secondly this is this is what help us track these items to more in the future if they get stolen somewhere tasha's dream is that one day stolen items will be returned and nothing justifies the artifacts not being in their places of origin and the people who worship them nothing justifies the fact that there are not in the place where it's still a part of the living here because i think that's one justifies that they're not

here. until the artifacts are returned and the theft start cash he says the ancient wheeled life for his people will remain under threat. al jazeera. where ever you are. new yorkers are very receptive to al jazeera because it is such an international

city they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work. on al-jazeera. i still claims responsibility after sixteen people are killed in a suicide bomb attack in kabul just moments after the return of exiled vice president abdul rashid dostum. some of this is al jazeera long from london also coming up fleeing at the dead of night around four hundred twenty members of the white helmets and their families

leave syria and arrive in jordan a suicide attack kills a candidate from front runner and run comms a ahead of pakistan's elections plus. under drought reporting from greenland all the threats presented by the new realities bird towering over in europe christian britain. and the sixteen people have died in a suicide bombing targeting afghanistan's vice president abdul rashid dostum the film a war load and. k. ethnic leader returned from exile off the fourteen months following allegations he had tortured and abused a rival eisel has claimed responsibility for the attack shelob alice as well. as scores of vice president abdul rashid dostum supporters gathered to welcome him back at kabul's international airport a suicide bomber detonated his vest at the main entrance among the casualties with

security forces and civilians. dostum escaped his convoy had passed minutes earlier the second most powerful man in afghanistan had been living in exile in turkey for the last fourteen months his supporters protested demanding his return but there are many who don't want him back. general dostum lift off to ahmed ishi in northern accused him and his guards of kidnapping and rape. the book dostum ordered his commander to rape me nine other bodyguards he told them to rape me until the ground is covered with blood and take a photograph but dostum refused to come in for questioning president ashraf ghani then persuaded turkey's president reject typo to want to take him in it's not the first time dostum spain exiled in turkey it's a repeat of ten years ago when he assaulted a political rival which led to this standoff in kabul between police and his bodyguards dostum has

a ruthless reputation he has ruled northern afghanistan for thirty years and is renowned for shifting his allegiance. in one thousand nine hundred six he met top taliban commanders for talks but the handshake stops the he would fight the taliban in the northern alliance famously saying he could live a vow to a government where there is no whisky and no music after the two thousand and one us invasion dostum transitioned from warlord to politician. he willed enormous influence in afghanistan's north making him a target his enemies want him gone his allies need her ahead of next year's presidential election charlotte dallas. rescue workers known as the white helmet have been evacuated from syria in response to the advancing threat posed by government forces israel's military has taken four

hundred twenty two of the first responders to safety in jordan the request of the united nations she has i guess for as will. as night fell hundreds of white helmet volunteers and their families made their way across the israeli occupied golan heights to jordan the plan is for the united nations to help resettle them in canada the u.k. and germany rebels in syria southwest region reached a deal with the government to leave the area on friday buses have been leaving from quintet truck what we are seeing actually in my opinion is bought off the enjoyments would have been agreed between. an international powers in order to clear. the area from any presence that is not that might not be happy with. the white helmets were founded in twenty fourteen to rescue civilians injured in attacks on rebel held territory the nonprofit volunteer risky

group operated in opposition held areas and has been backed by the u.s. and other western countries for many of the volunteers who left this is the first time in years they won't be confronted with casualties of war so here's our guy for all just zero. stephanie deca is in the occupied golan heights and has more. these are really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has issued a statement saying that he was contacted by the american president by the canadian prime minister and others to facilitate the movement of the white helmets and their families here across the israeli occupied golan heights and into jordan so it was a massive international multinational effort also with the united nations involved to get this under way it is of course very different for the tens of thousands of displaced who remain across this border the syrian government is now firmly in control of most of it the only pocket really that remains that is under opposition

control is this right behind us and this is controlled by a group that is affiliated with ice or so there is no deal on the table with them because there have been deals made in these other pockets evacuating some of the rebels to northern parts of syria so we've been seeing throughout the day quite an active air campaign and we do expect this to be the government's final push to take back all of southern syria and a convoy of fifty five process taking syrian rebels and their families have been allowed to proceed to the north after being stopped by iranian malicious earlier very rounded and detained for several hours by fine says wearing military style uniforms in a city of homeless following an intervention by the russian military police they were then allowed to move again the convoy left the natural response of an agreement between the opposition and the syrian government to surrender positions in the south of france is sending a fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern groups or

the shipment is being sent on a russian plane the first time a western country has sent material to syrian government controlled areas with moscow's help government forces we took in april after a siege lasting several years about half a million people live there very little aid has reached them so far. to pakistan now where tensions are rising ahead of wednesday's general elections a candidate from the front runner imran khan's party has been killed in a suicide attack that also wounded four others. can the poor was a candidate of the pakistan tehreek e insaf p.t.i. party is a call was targeted in the northwestern province of khyber to inquire as he was leaving a political meeting pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility. for wednesday's

election is promising to be fact it sounds most unpredictable yet when allegations of media restrictions and poll rigging overshadowing the vote some avenge of a force from lahore in punjab province it will tell you this is the man considered a disruptor by pakistan's two main political parties until a few months ago but now polls suggest iran cons the wrekin soft party is the frontrunner he's taken the lead from the washer if the former prime minister jailed by an accountability for the rise of iran hollande in the following russia is alleged to have been engineered by the establishment a little metaphor for pakistan's military this is a plan and it is intended to bring about a result in this election which the planners want. it will produce a situation which will cause further difficulties for this country a weak government internally divided coalition huge challenges. it's the first election where religious far right parties are taking part in mainstream

politics at their regular back pakistan o.t.l. pete rose to prominence for the violent sit in in islamabad it was resolved after the military became a guarantor that in the protestors and the government now it's a political force with more than five hundred candidates vying for national and provincial assemblies seats he plans to make pakistan but it falls through religious state denies it is backed by the military and says its money come from loyalists in their millions all. the money given to us by the rangers was someone's individual and has nothing to do with the party of this video which was made to get viral was a conspiracy. no musharraf league has been assured of support from the allison at will demarked which was a band group until last month and imran khan's party has welcomed in its full. former chief a cleric who's on the u.s. terror watch list a political party is also being formed by the supporters of hospice aid another cleric who is on the united nations terrorists list we are feeling over two hundred

fifty candidates for the first time in this election and from their headquarters the million muslim league is running an organized campaign but the political party insists that the u.n. is wrong and have a say has not been given the right to respond to allegations against him how many how many practical people and or character is clear whether it safeguarding pakistan's ideology philanthropy and public service or the ethical support for occupied kashmir that's why people will vote for us there's also a religious alliance of parties which is running as well the religious parties are not expected to win many seats but they will be able to take away votes from traditional parties the final outcome of this change the political landscape will depend on how many of the hundred six million pakistanis but just to do both will come out to cast their ballots. zero. iraqi national security service has admitted to holding hundreds of people suspected of terrorism for

months according to human rights watch the agency has been keeping them it's of a celebrity interest to mosul which has retaken from i still just over a year ago imran khan has more from baghdad. human rights watch ones clarification on whether the national security service has the authority to be able to hold detainees without charge but it also wants to know why these detainees haven't been able to get access to lawyers why they haven't gone through the due process now since april the n.s.a. has been denying that it's held anybody however off the human rights watch investigators went into the east mostly found this detention facility they were able to confirm at least four hundred twenty seven prisoners of being held there then the national security agency service backtracked saying it was allowed to hold prisoners however the law is a little bit murky on all of this the law says that the iraqi security forces can hold prisoners captured in the time of war without charge whether the national

security service comes under that is unclear no human rights watch say they are looking for clarification on all of this they say they've heard some horror stories from people in the facility they say that the stories some of the stories that they've heard include people being tortured to death and all of this comes as more and more human rights violations are being uncovered as we come to the end to it nearly a year after the end of the war against it took me in mosul iraq says that it is trying to do its best simply overwhelmed by the amount of people that it arrested during the war against i so and is trying to give everybody due process still to come on al-jazeera hundreds of israeli settlers stone the al aksa mosque compound in jerusalem to commemorate an important historical event and aphis in nigeria to reintegrate thousands of traumatised teenagers recruited by boko haram back into society.