fulfilled that commitment with the government the constitution of pakistan makes with its people let's talk about the change in progress that your party has been promising and it's been elected upon you embarked upon a very ambitious hundred day plan which many thought was over promising and in the last hundred days the economy is not in tremendous shape there has been thousands of jobs a vigil being lost the indicators at the national assembly in terms of legislature haven't really moved a lot so you talk about this progress but how confident are you that given the hundred days you haven't been able to achieve as much as you hoped that you will i may not agree with you because the hundred days were. only a selection of direction in one hundred days you wouldn't believe in them but in the hundred days used to certain says there has to be a bit in hundred days you will not be able to bring legislation because this isn't is not a project which is

a bill cannot be written in hundred days and passed in the assembly in one hundred days a number of economic policies had to be handled in one hundred days we would just. looking at the condition of the economy which was artificially in fact is to lay people the indicator for example has been the dollar to people already of the whatever rated it was available at but in reality it was much worse in reality what was happening because of the high. rupee dollar parity our exports were dwindling a lot of things were happening so i think in the three months or in the four months since my government has taken over i think they're coming to the whole thing is coming to terms with the reality of what was really happening and what was delivered over it and what people thought was happening and what was not actually happening so what is happening is corruption there's a big message going on that you can take money out of pakistan in informal manner

which is illegal there are a lot of illegality as you mentioned that in karate for example people are out of a job why because illegal structures are being demolished but why did the legal structures come up because for the last fifty years you were free to encroach on government land or encroach on any any land on the road and build structures and that became the law because law is what people should see on the street rather than love it is on paper so the law on the street was that you can do a lot of illegalities and run away with it one day reality check had to be done that was that was exactly what i was going to come to words and you highlighted that that now it is the time for a reality check that you've come into power and you realize the situation was not as you expected it was wouldn't it have been better to provide alternatives first before the demolition let me surprise you. i think what has been done as far as the legal structures etc is concerned is only five percent of what is possible so this

is one to five steps to go so after five steps i think a reality check again with what we are doing and providing all. net assessment of things that humanitarian part is important but first the messages toward the this. cannot accept illegal activities or illegal structures any of it this is the government which is going after major leaders across the political spectrum and that has been the quam of the opposition saying that this is selective justice it accuses your government of carrying out a vendetta against political opponents using the national accountability bureau is a tool how do you counter that narrative in your leaders aren't arrested and their leaders are arrested in they come out on the streets and see that they're being victimized the nab lawyers very specific it is political influence in corruption about politically influenced people who has been in government the majority has

been have been other parties then the president. therefore for it to be fair it has to question the nabj law has to question those were been in government but the figures are sure shocking as far as the corruption with the corruption has been done and i feel i'm surprised by the fact that people some of the people are still defending what the practice is let's talk about as the president of pakistan your disability and commander in chief of the armed forces. but this rule is considered to be a ceremonial one what is going to be different in the pakistan that you will bring is the rule of leadership i did defining with causes i have taken up an initiative which is called pakistan the presidential initiative on artificial intelligence i believe that the world is in you very fast i believe the internet of things that

are just around the corner into this internet of industrial things exist around the corner people have described it as the fourth in the civilization which is around the corner and i want pakistan to be there in the beginning jump onto the train right now because the economy as is being predicted of the. fourth industrial revolution is going to be estimated as three point five trillion dollars by two thousand and twenty three and i don't want to miss the boat. is looking for this government has promised. jobs. promised houses and all that can happen only when pakistan starts walking with the pace of the world rather than a slow march behind the word so what does this mean there's a proactive the president mean pakistan is going back towards a presidential system of government. i believe i believe that the president should be supporting all the good causes i believe that the woman the laws of

inheritance poor in pakistan present day pakistan i believe that what is the spirit the my religion provides to woman is not being given by the culture of our people so i believe to increase their space within the realms of the region. women need employment woman need public spaces and public to be able to move around i think that is not at the level of which we want to be we want women in leadership positions what are conservation for example is. a very important thing pakistan is faced with global warming there are precedents in the world who deny global warming are you very of them this thing we all are. this is not to. deny global warming he wants to prepare his country to face it let's move to words that president that you just mentioned the relationship between your country and their government that you

represent with the president you just mentioned is not on the best of terms in fact let me read out the cia is assessment for twenty eight thousand by the director of national intelligence daniel coats and cocked back sudden will continue to threaten u.s. interests by deploying new nuclear weapons capabilities maintaining tights to militants restricting town and counterterrorism cooperation growing closer to china militant groups supported by islam about will continue to take advantage of safe haven in pakistan to plan and conduct attacks in india and afghanistan including against u.s. interests so you have the poor narrative you know this is going to tell you again is this related to is being used or has been news historically any country against visit any superpower would have wanted to do exist so what will you do two hundred good look at the fact that they're responsible nuclear state played pakistan where pakistan did not develop its nuclear weapons india exploded a nuclear device in seventy four then pakistan ensured its own security by

developing enrichment of uranium and then developing a nuclear weapon then india jumped in and exploded nuclear devices nine hundred ninety eight and pakistan did it afterwards what is the sponsibility is that does not have the security you need for securing yourself does the u.s. and. only the other countries have. the right to develop weapons which can destroy the world five hundred times over imagine the logic and then. any superpower can it just bugs on and said no you don't have the right to defend yourself. we have the right to defend ourselves i think pakistan has been a very responsible nuclear state but at the same time when you mention the fact about terrorism around we have been we have faced terrorism and i let me make a statement which is a very important statement and going going to your challenge the pakistan army and the pakistan armed forces are the most experienced in the world the world should

have listened to them the world should have learned from them the world can still learn from them they have registered terrorism have stop terrorism on our borders and best of our borders you see there is total chaos and turmoil and i hold many powers responsible for that look at what i found look at syria only a few days ago mr trump quoted somebody and said that the two is not the business of the united states to be doing redeem changes in areas now once it has been said what is the responsibly future in the future of the of those countries those who think it was not their right to come in and do it and today they're ready to accept it shouldn't we be talking about what reparations should humanitarian reparations in those areas and the figure was on human. life has been very aptly selected in the lockerbie disaster you know it spoiled six point two five million dollars per person life how many hundreds of thousands of people have died in that region and pakistan has suffered pakistan had at three point five million of one if

it is even today pakistan has two point five million or one hundred fifty have you heard shouting about it how i have you heard us complaining about it many countries in the world are not ready to accept one hundred of these there are was being built up too strict everybody around the best way in the world to do to discourage immigration is trying is is a new philosophy where every human life should be considered the same of the same worth and not the lives of my country are. i'm not more important than lives of others before i come to the nuclear programs on this issue of the trumpet ministration and its very clear disliking for pakistan what is pakistan going to do to change try and change that is pakistan going to be talking to the chairman are you talking to them right now and the narrative that is leveled against pakistan whether it comes to mumbai attacks on bin laden being found in pakistan the issue

of support for the taliban from the circles in pakistan across the board in the plan is that that is the narrative that exists you can't deny that you know what are you going to do a narrative may exist but it isn't one narrative let me tell you we've lost seventy thousand people in the war on terrorism should we start blaming everybody else or should i started i am sure of what is happening in baluchistan and what's happening elsewhere india has had a hand in it so. i suffered from the same terrorism so what. lost so many lives so when india has picked up that book and has jumped onto that bag bandwagon to justify it across cities in kashmir also i make a statement and i us that has made a major effort to try and curb terrorism within itself and it has overflowed our borders we have been unable to to prevent that but imagine to do the world is saying that there must be a peaceful solution to

a want to start you must have talks with taliban the us forces are being withdrawn in desperation because a solution is not visible. right now with force and pakistan isn't good communication with the united states on these issues but we wanted relationship based on dignity on principles on principles of noninterference i think that's the most important factor we would like to look have peace within the neighbors you mention the fact that pakistan want good relations with china what is evil about it . i think it's been done has the right to have good relations with a friend would have been of which has been a friend almost forever in the last forty forty five years so it's a it's a very. strongly progressing and developing country and the corridor is a good example of relationship between pakistan interact before you want to raise the relations with india also that's not exactly my point that now that you see and there's been steps that this government has taken it's opened a border for six six pilgrim's but it hasn't had much way in terms of diplomatic

developments with the indian government is pakistan going to be the government which solves the kashmir issue and has normalized ties with india we would like to but needs a solution to what has happened is after the seventy four accord. indian government has been thing there is that this is a bilateral issue now when you see this a bilateral should let's come and talk we want up under one all the other issues we have not talked so india cannot ignore it the struggle in kashmir is totally indigenous the struggle in kashmir is based upon the united nations resolution which was passed in the sixty's the fifty's the struggle in kashmir is saw is so. strong today that indian independent indian writers indian columnists for example of the have told india have made statements

that kashmir is no more a part of india when you have five hundred thousand or six hundred thousand forces in a small part of india which is called kashmir when people when they expect the freedom fighter or when the indian forces go into a village and they say that there are two or three people hold out here we were freedom fighters or in their language militants the whole village comes out to defend this is remarkable. india is using pellet guns against children against women against everybody and the number of injuries in the eyes in the world is ignoring it that that is where i'm surprised you're not the principles on which democracies have been formed are being falsified in this manner. in the manner of when governments do not write for ways for human rights india may be living in a false hope regarding the future that it is a superpower you can become a superpower by encroaching upon the rights of people and let me tell you people

can never be suppressed the the jews living in europe will not suppressed could not be suppressed despite millions being killed the palestinians living in. palestine they cannot be suppressed i tell comes out of the mother's womb and as soon as it is able to pick up a stone it picks up a stone and throws it at the airplane to you cannot suppress people anywhere that's the logic which is gone past cannot as cannot happen cannot continue a former president sitting in this office in two thousand and eight said that pakistan will be will be adhering to in a few with no first use of the nuclear weapons is that the policy of the presidency and there are a full of years where i believe that pakistan the nuclear weapons which pakistan has for peace pakistan get them as a deterrence. we believe that with a belligerent country right across the border who cannot be trusted as far as

pakistan is concerned has not been interested is not even ready to. have dialogue on international forums like sark everytime a meeting issue for india somehow biggles out of it so i believe that pakistan is a peaceful nation no intention of using its nuclear weapons so under new pakistan is the blame game going to subside and is there going to be constructive dialogue. on pakistan's part or are we going to see more of the same in as far as international relations with india concern no we are very positive i think the positive steps have been taken by the prime minister one was writing requesting a meeting. on the size of the united nations that was rejected no reason to reject it and they picked up a school with the news which was about a month or two months old we were not even there then opening up the six got to go to pakistan has been making positive gestures practical doing practical measures

and pakistan is showing the will that it wants peace with india it is for india to pick it up let's move on to words china you mentioned china china is pakistan's biggest trading partner now the sea pecora door which was at forty three billion dollars is now evolved into a sixty two even for the sixty two billion dollar project how trustworthy the is an ally like china and specially when it comes to dealing out cash for a country like pakistan where you've seen the belton road initiative aftermath of the belt and ordination of in places in africa. had to give up a port to keep up with its payments to china so how confident are you that china is a trustworthy ally for parks. and i have been good friends i don't remember a single episode over our history in tennis history where we have had any

misgivings about any action which has happened what has happened there what you've mention africa and south america when you have corrupt governments it is quite possible that some investments may have been covered by corruption some countries have taken back but i did tease with changing governments that when all of this happened that is a negotiator. you mention that isn't like malaysia that is an open thing this is a venturi which is profit. china and it is a venture it is profitable to pakistan before coming to power you are your own government had reservations about this corridor right you would never we never know we record we never had reservation but we always say that corruption should not be a part of any any deals which may happen so that's what our insistence is and that's what. so what despite your stance principled position when it comes to the issue of human rights in china for instance which have been condemned by the united

nations and other world organizations and particularly this new issue of up to a million muslims in northern china being taken to detention camps and being china says that these are these are camps for restructuring and reliability to people what is pakistan's position on these muslims in particular a bug a stance position with the government of china believes that these bookies are raised whenever a new government is being pressured with. china i think our government's policy is that it's an internal matter of if there is something like that happening and i believe we trust the chinese government to take care of its own people in the best manner but let's talk about the money that has been coming from china you touched upon the economy earlier there's been a lot of reservations from international organizations christine legarde for instance wants pakistan to raise grass prices even further the i.m.f. wants to pakistan to devalue its currency against the dollar there's

a lot of constraints and the united nations is pressuring pakistan saying that it wants to stop payments because it feels that it will go to words united states united states saying that you know it will go towards reaping china's law will not get anonymous but that that is that is what you are up against. so i this is this is that it's a very tricky situation where you need the money but the money that is coming in from one of your very important partners is putting off others. but you will inevitably need what. countries may be objecting to is a very close relationship with china i think that is not at the cost of any other country i think our relationship with china is bilateral i don't think it is geared against india for example or going against any other country and i believe the world should also look at it as a bilateral friendship between us and on the issue of ghana stan pakistan has been making headway into words trying getting the taliban on the table with other

parties and your foreign minister has had a tour of four countries he's heading towards cutter we believe as well how confident are you with that pakistan will be able to bring the taliban to the negotiating table and is it in pakistan's interest that afghanistan becomes stable rather than keeping its influence on the taliban on the border we believe very strongly that in the peaceful words on the board number two we have a we may have a certain influence from some of the taliban. and we have insisted that the come on to the table and they have agreed in certain areas to come on the table we might see. at the end of your tenure what are your biggest fears and what do you think are going to be your biggest achievements while you hold this office cannot become a developed country in five years but i would like to see. change with the maximum for cubans without a people satisfied that things are happening improve all of the sectors improve

exports improve our economy i think we are set on the road map but it's. the president of the islamic republic of pakistan thank you very much for talking to others. the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise one on one east investigates the threat this followed posers on al-jazeera. i've had this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of ton of ability and if you can give them the opportunity wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest seditions author missed and packed for a bit has not been. the main things that sets out zero apart from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people but about ideas or politicians and what

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bangladesh face in the election already. they've been labeled a threat to brazil by the incoming president we look at the battle looming with landless people. and bridging the pay gap between because i'm boss it's week seven what's being done in the united kingdom to make salaries fair. so polls are open in the democratic republic of congo in the long awaited presidential election economies and choosing who will succeed joseph kabila he's been in power for seventeen years about one point three million people they from three districts have been excluded from voting decision that schools protests in the lead up to the home or let me not katherine so you joins us from the capital kinshasa she has the latest and catherine the voting underway as we say despite the

weather and there's been a lot going on. yes we've seen more and more orders coming in. as you mentioned it has been raining very heavy that rain has stopped now. the process that. has been. missing people voting in and two minutes but nic let me just explain where i am for context i mean an area called calm but this is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the city so everything has been properly organized everything it all night was being passed through security checks many of them when we're getting here some people have been brought in. but the reality of the modern really is just a fraction of the well million residents that can afford to live in a neighborhood like like this the president lives very near to this polling station

as well has voted as well as mark in what you do one of the main presidential candidate we spoke to them after they cut the ballot. just a comedian who says that everybody has to. do have a lot of cards they have to vote and each single putting station has to have been and people are seated. and we know that so many are still having problems. everything is going peacefully now. you know beneath the people of u.v. because all of with. their communities you have to foods. my only concern is that we have this very heavy rain. and for the for the time out might be wrong but hopefully that space is clear that what

others are now and what you think the critics are saying that they don't believe that the sentence is the same because of color. or time or to a discrete year but they shouldn't be unfair and nor different in december. says catherine it is the view of voters across the country do you think. while a lot of people don't read the trust of at least the ones i spoke to don't really trust the president they don't trust the whole process is on track the electoral commission they say that they believe that this election is going to be it's not going to be credible let me just talk about an area martin for you the presidential candidate mentioned benny one of the places where the election has been called into march we've been seeing dramatic scenes from that town of people have come out the gone to the makeshift polling stations with ballot paper then ballot boxes and in

our. elections as saying that they want to have their voices had they know that what they're doing probably won't make any difference but they're saying that they must protest in my house had a copy told he will fill in that if we are told is going on well in addition to the machines weren't working but they have now brought replacement again can check this as well in many places of voting is going on while the president also addressed the nation on the back of the evening and he talked about all the challenges that are facing the country and the reasons why the election in this three areas many of them when the council to talk about security problems and this of. a situation a blow. the crisis that he said helped lead kids are. getting overwhelmed and helpless as seems to be dealing with very well and he said that these people in

this area is going to have their day in months but like i said not many people trust him. our catherine back with the as the day goes on in the meantime thanks very much. four people have been killed in election related violence in bangladesh the separate incidents happened in the cities of g.'s ago and camila security remains on high alert says voting heads into its final election campaign has seen violence between supporters of the government and the opposition the prime minister's shaken senior who's aiming to win a fourth term has been criticized for cracking down on the opposition in the lead up to polling day let's get the very latest from our correspondent charles stratford who's in dhaka and charles the polls close understand. about an hour away from polls closing next early the situation at this polling station has been calm that's not to say there haven't been allegations of voter fraud certainly members of what could be described as an opposition voter

monitoring saying that here too what carstens to witness accounts of the votes say that they came along here this morning had their id papers and their election papers confiscated quite what they described as pro-government people here they said that they were threatened and ordered to leave representatives from all parties are supposed to be at these polling stations to monitor this election system barring signs there are implications of potential foul play interestingly but a couple of people come up and quietly speak to us very concerned about the situation here one man saying that he came along to cast his ballot this morning and found that it is already been done for him now the government in the build up to this election assured that the kind of figures that the opposition have been talking about in terms of what they sell in a number of people who've been arrested detained. we stopped ten thousand six

hundred people detained so the opposition say that the government saying that these are fortunate figures that they are simply being exaggerated and kings are points out he says that. members of their own support networks are there supporters of also being killed at least six government supporters have been killed in election violence as i say here at this polling station today it has been relatively calm but you reported at the beginning of the program that least of all people as we've reported killed in various locations across the country today we can now report that that number is being reported at least by local media as being at least seven . so we'll have to go before. another indication of just how cruel and tense the situation is in bangladesh on an election that some of the opposition say has seen unprecedented levels of violence in the build up the

polling day indeed and i did charts of of what's at stake in these elections. what's important to recognize certainly the ruling party the government here has been praised on its economic record for the bangladesh in recent years the world bank happy with the past six percent at least six percent growth economically that they've witnessed the government being praised for some of its big infrastructure projects in the level of investment that it's bringing into the country particular by the chinese and the indians of course the opposition saying that this kind of investment isn't really filtering down to the everyday people they pointing to the impacts of remittances of course millions of bangladeshis work abroad and send money to their families here or see the impact of the closing manufacturing industry here as well brings in millions of the countries of the opposition crying foul on their economic record here the government is also being praised for its

treatment or handling at least of the ranger refugee crisis at least seven hundred thousand range of refugees fleeing a crackdown in myanmar last year now residing in refugee camps in this country so it's all to say that the government hasn't been praise and certain courses and by certain countries and international bodies for their record in some respects but the big question being asked of critics certainly in this election is whether people are going to be able to vote freely have their votes counted truly and whether indeed they are going to vote for what is being described as a leader greater political freedom in going with the opposition the full what the rules and policies that he's they're going to be guaranteed economic growth. thanks very much indeed that story from doc at the time being thanks a lot. the warring sides in yemen have begun handing over responsibility for the port of her data to the united nations forces from the who thiis in the yemeni

government being redeployed as part of a un backed deal between the two sides agreed in sweden earlier this month it's aimed at ending almost four years of war which has caused a humanitarian disaster un coordinators yet to clarify the functions and responsibilities of both sides south korea's president has received a letter from the north korean leader kim jong un asking for talks in the new year .