developers nuclear weapons india exploded a nuclear device in seventy four then pakistan ensured its own security by developing and it meant 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 pakistan have the security you need for securing itself does the us 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 the any superpower can address pakistan 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 be have been we have faced terrorism and then let me make a statement which is a very important statement and going going to your talent that 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 resisted 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 look at syria only a few days ago mr trump quoted somebody and said the it was not the business of the united states to be doing regime changes in areas that even 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 do did they are ready to accept it shouldn't we be talking about what their positions should humanitarian operations in those areas and the figure was on human. life has been very aptly selected in the lockerbie disaster you know it's what. 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 head at three point five million of one if we even two point five million have you heard our shouting about it however you heard us complaining about it many countries in the world are not ready to accept one hundred of these there are walls being built up to everybody around the best away in the world to do to discourage immigration is trying is a new philosophy where every human life should be considered the same of the same worth to not the lives of my country not more important than lives of others before i come to the nuclear programs on this issue of the trumpet ministration and it's 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 germans are you talking to them

right now and the narrative that is levelled 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 border in the blood 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 is unclear 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. has lost so many lives. so when india has picked up that book here and has jumped onto that bag bandwagon to justify it at crossroads in kashmir also i make a statement and i us that stand has made a major effort to try and curb terrorism within itself and it has overflowed our borders we have been unable to prevent that but imagine we did the world is saying

that there must be a peaceful solution to a one is that 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 it's a it's a very. strongly progressing and developing country and the corridor is a good example of relationship between pakistan and turn right before you want to use 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 bill graham's but it hasn't had much weight 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 it we would like to but needs a solution to what does happen is after the seventy fourth accord. indian government has been saying this that this is a bilateral issue now when you see this a bilateral should 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 resolutions 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 t.v. i have told india have 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 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 and the world is ignoring it that that is where i am surprise you 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 would not suppressed could not be suppressed despite millions being killed the palestinians living in gaza in palestine they cannot be suppressed 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 so it cannot happen cannot continue a former president sitting in this office in two thousand a said that pakistan will be will be adhering to an if you would know first use of the nuclear weapons is that the policy of the presidency and there are a full of years where i believe that the nuclear weapons which pakistan has for peace the 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 trusted 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 internationally as far as relations with india concerned 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 which when government was 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 further 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 approx ten 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 in all of this happened that as a negotiator. you mention that unlike malaysia that is an open thing this is a venturi it is profit to. china and it is a venture it is profitable to be focusing 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 is pakistan's 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 buggy 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 china 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 gas 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 would it will go towards reaping china's lol not yet synonymous that that is that is what you are up against. so i this is this is that it's a very tricky situation when 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 the 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 cut there 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 on some of the taliban. and we have insisted did they 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 can not become a developed country in five years but i would like to see the route to change with

the maximum for two burns without a people satisfied that things are happening improve all of the sectors improve our exports improve our economy i think we are set on the road. the president of the islamic republic of pakistan thank you very much for talking to others. when on line i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on saturday there was a rush of adrenaline when we felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for

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and welcome to alexander on live from my headquarters in doha but me in his book also ahead president donald trump agrees to slow down the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria. the un freshens to stop sending food to get the warring sides keep stealing it from starving people and the north korean leader kim jong un warns of an alternative plan for denuclearization. brazil's new president is about to be sworn in. as a may just went to the right and he's promising big changes for latin america's largest nation. live pictures from the capitol where we're expecting also now or as we've been reporting to be sworn in and he will then

address that crowd there. as we've said he is promising big changes they include a major crackdown on corruption and crime loosening environmental protection rules potentially allowing the agricultural sector to explore its more of the amazon rain forest in foreign policy he's pledged to follow u.s. president donald trump's lead by moving brazil's embassy and israel from tel aviv to jerusalem and some arab states are threatening to boycott brazilian beef if bolton hour goes ahead with that move well as we wait now for that swearing in ceremony and. to speak let's go to our correspondent john heilemann he is live for us in brazil you know what are we expecting to hear from bolton our when he addresses the nation job. well if it's the same as the speech when he was elected there's going to be a lot of talk about family values and about gold and about even property but some

of the major campaign promises which you just talked about going to be most important to those who voted for him this is a president that in the outside world perhaps especially by for media is seen as quite negatively but with in brazil itself he's got about sixty five percent of people in a poll that's just been done he said they expect him to do a good or a great job so he has got quite a lot of popular support now what he wants to do is try and affect a couple of problems that have been huge in brazil perhaps chief among them is crime more than sixty thousand brazilians were killed just in two thousand and seventeen and he says he's going to get have a real hard line strategy especially with the police he said that a police who doesn't kill isn't a policeman and that tells you something about what he's attitude is going to be towards law and order also loosening gun laws in terms of corruption brazil is just

coming off a couple of years ago a corruption scandal that was the biggest ever in latin america at one point a third of the congress was under investigation so he said he's going to clamp down on that and the economy more than twelve million brazilians are unemployed so he's got to get that moving again those rule the promises that he's made but this is a leader who's admitted in the past that he doesn't know a lot about the economy so he's going to be relying on the people around him to help with that what he does have is a very successful social media presence neighborhood him to communicate with the masses and a way of speaking that people regard as very down to earth they see him as one of them even though he has made statements that have been seen as racist as homophobic and against women in the past some of the statements. well as being you know as well as what you've mentioned some of the other statements that people have rewired

about his openness style jeff will brazil's you know military dictatorships of the past john and i think something like seven of his twenty two cabinet ministers that he's nominating a former military personnel. exactly even his vice president is a general so this is a man who is as you just said there really has a full nose to the military past of brazil a dictatorship in which people were killed and tortured he said in the past actually that he does favor to a church you've got to remember about brazil this is a democracy that's only thirty years old so there are questions about whether he's going to chip away at is to choose since when if he doesn't get what he wants especially with congress or the supreme court if he's going to use that direct connection that he's got with the population through his twitter account through the weekly facebook videos that he's been publishing and undermine democracy in

that way he's said in the campaign that he's committed to democracy and when you ask his followers as we have been doing in brazil brasilia over the last couple of days what do they think about that what they what are they worried about the democracy he said well he's been elected by democracy has shown in the commitment to it even if we wanted to go back to the military past brazil has changed now now in the next four years we're going to see if that's true or not. john. john stay with us because we are going to look at some of those live pictures now from the brazilian congress and presenting i believe that's the national anthem that's being played before we expect to hear from. is going to be soon and. we are at the brazilian congress and it's not just because of the empire. of course john who are at the inauguration israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's

been invited the hug area and prime minister viktor orban and they're interesting me a few of latin america the few latin american leaders. where i think initially and vice heads went bad and. told that they weren't welcome i think maybe the cue to make it out when or venezuela needed. you're exactly right definitely so with venezuela and cuba they were originally invited and then that was rescinded you do have ever more or less the president of the year which is quite a key leftist leader in the region but this is you've got to remember this is the biggest economy in south america it's the most populous country so what brazil does holds a lot of weight in the region and there's definitely a sort of a re alignment from the sort of the leftist vision in the leftist allies in a rule right to start rich and i think

a lot of countries in the region going to be curious maybe a little bit apprehensive about what comes next with a leader who for a long time he's been a congressman since nine hundred ninety one but he spent more than twenty years there and only had two bills to his name so this is a man who for a long time was an outlier people probably still wondering what exactly he's going to do and which part of this government as well is going to take precedent to get to this point is how tough the support of evangelicals which are a powerful bloc in congress and group business sector also a powerful block in congress you mentioned that they're looking into and thinking about how they can exploit the amazon rain forest financial sectors there's going to be a lot of people now who are going to be vying for power and to shape the policy of joy not only now he's the the president. country that will then show you which direction brazil goes into as it goes ahead john thank you very much for that for

now and that is john home and live in brasilia i think we will leave it there for now and come back to you john as soon as we hear from president both senator. so let's move on to other news for now president donald trump says the u.s. will not withdraw from syria in a hurry after coming under intense pressure from allies and senior figures and has republican party last month trump abruptly announced that all two thousand american troops would be brought home immediately following what he described as their victory over ice so well meanwhile war between syrian president bashar assad and rebel forces appears to be entering its final phase edler province is the last remaining opposition on klav and people there are bracing for a government offensive as tries to bring all of syria under his control the home of the reports from ghazi untapped near the turkish syrian border. this is very hard town in mosul syria said the problem is it libya's home to three million people who

since two thousand and fifteen have been effectively troubled it is serious last remaining opposition enclave controlled by a kill to assad but of rebels. syrian president bashar al assad strengthened in recent months by support from powerful allies and the reopening of their embassies in damascus by some arab countries is vowing to launch an invasion. it live with its cinder block thomson villages could soon be subject to rockets bombs and even class the bombs. the rebels are putting on a brave face. today we are all gathered here and ready to fight until the last drop of our blood we are the songs of this territory and we know it very well and so do the people displaced from all over syria are now living in this small geographic area which is just ninety square kilometer nothing will make us lose our resolve to fight on what. you know. in the middle of it lives the

ruling or live groups the displaced live in some of the most desperate conditions possible with no proper housing there. the musci of the elements. i mean. we lack everything there's no food no money we have nothing that winter and floods are making life even more difficult when it gets a little windy our tents just fly away. humanitarian workers warn a full assault on it live could spark a refugee crisis of historic proportions driving millions of people into turkey and europe yet this theater of war is never locking in action in another corner of milf in syria fighters loyal to the turkish allied free syrian army are on the march they're headed for the kurdish held city of members in support of a planned offensive by turkish forces in recent days techie has been massing troops

at its border and even sent tanks rolling into territories syria that it holds sway over turkey considers the kurdish y p d fighters who control members terrorists. turkey's main problems with groups it considers terrorists finding a foothold in territory to administer inside syria i'm talking about so-called terror corridor the p y g m p y d kurdish organizations but there is also the issue of syrian refugees turkey believes there is a great need to end the conflict in syria so the refugees can return the announcement of a complete withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria has opened the gates just crumble by regional powers such as turkey and iran to aggressively pursue the interest of the city feeling abandoned by the united states congress why premier fighters are real with the syrian regime uninvited forces to protect them against the problem talk it's often without football now when countries held territory in north from syria remains the missing

plug in assad's plan to reclaim the whole of syria it's just a matter of time. before he.