children were among those trying to breach the friends the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them as being real debate about america's immigration policy after the deaths of two guatemalan children in u.s. custody still to come here at al-jazeera searching for survivors in the philippines after flash floods and landslides killed at least eighty five people. the challenge to emanuel mccraw in france come the yellow vest protest does have an impact on the european parliamentary elections. hello again it's good to have you back we are watching some very heavy rain that we've seen here across parts of vietnam continuing along the coastal areas over the next few days so we could be seeing some mostly cloudy to cloudy conditions

affecting most of the central region but for him knowing it is going to be mostly cloudy the rain to the south of you with the time to the eighteen degrees along parts of china we're also going to see some rain as well that's going to be on the increase as we go towards friday for joe we'll see some rain shanghai you could also be seeing some rain in taipei you may be getting out of the rain we do expect to see a temperature there of about twenty six degrees while looking quite nice across much of india we're talking maybe some clouds to the north down towards the south where we had been seeing some rain as we ended the year looking much better across much of the area we may see some clouds passing through sri lanka but we don't expect to see too much in terms of rain there attempt a few other to what twenty five degrees in new delhi clouds coming into your forecast maybe about twenty degrees there and then here across the gulf we are going to be seeing a change in temperature here for much of cuts over the next day winter kind of come out of the south here on thursday but by the time we get towards friday we do expect those winds to shift out of the north temperatures dropping to about twenty three degrees there in abu dhabi it is going to be partly cloudy day for you with

a temperature of twenty six. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has called base an eagle protest and instructed police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice in. lots of different reasons what's different types of bricks join the global conversation on al-jazeera.

to take a look at the top stories for the first time in several decades to women aged in their forty's event to the hindu temple in india women between the ages of ten and fifty were bad and until that was recently overturned by the supreme court hindu religious hardliners they were still trying to enforce the old rule. british politicians and international lawyers of all saudi arabia permission to visit detained activists they want to investigate allegations that they're being tortured and denied legal access. taiwan has rejected she is latest school for unification in an address to the chinese president didn't rule out the use of force against taiwan's pro independence supporters. now as you just heard chinese president xi is not ruling out the use of military force against supporters of independence in taiwan in his first major speech addressing the self ruled and president she

said taiwan's reunification with china is inevitable taiwan's leader there has rejected that statement and said beijing let's face reality and issue powerful it's . a new year speech with a familiar message. chinese president xi jinping has urged the people of taiwan to accept that it must and will be reunited with china in a speech on the fortieth anniversary of a key policy statement he reiterated beijing's call for peaceful unification. well . we are firmly against any plots to create two china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've achieved a major victory in the fight against taiwan independence or separatist activities nobody and no party can change the historical and legal fact one is part of china and both sides of the stright belong to china thank. president she has

increased pressure on taiwan since the election of psyching when as president in twenty sixteen she leads the pro independence democratic progressive party and on tuesday insisted the island's twenty three million people want to maintain self rule into a doubtful. democratic values and ideals and way of life cherished by taiwan's people we call on china to bravely step out onto the path to democracy only then can they truly understand the persistence and ideals of the taiwanese people. while taiwan is self-governed it has never formally declared independence from the mainland however it has acted as an independent nation since one nine hundred fifty when china's nationalist government leaders fled to the island after being defeated by communists forces the legitimacy of the ruling government today in china in just on several things possible economic governance and people which have done but secondly cheating national. have to do with the chinese identity as well as you can

bring bang on about the need for you to take action the credibility of the party who just on their ability to deliver on that goal while in recent years china has become more assertive over its claims over taiwan and it has also managed to convince more of taipei's view international allies to cut diplomatic ties with the island. for now neither side appears to be willing to back down in this longstanding dispute and are chapelle al-jazeera. in the philippines rescue workers a struggling to reach areas cut off by floods and landslides. that have killed at least eighty five people by call with the hardest hit to move and sixty people were killed their storm crossed the case just days after christmas in force about twenty five thousand people out of their homes richard gordon is the chairman of the philippines red cross he says there weren't enough preparations what went wrong to

say eight. there were over confident faithful it's not even a basement it's a tropical depression. and it was miss appreciate it and sad that they thought it was going to be a slow not to a strong right one but it brought a lot of rates and rain a setback for i've been saying sure there are a lot of mountainous a very diluted and it will cost landslides and stole the church knowledge that there are people no matter how are strong are alit i finished he should immediately evacuate those who are on the land and our slate role here and that's where most of the actual care about the same time actually came about because of our overflow from recruits. for example did not work those are all under their label the it went over it up the wall slightest and you know dated up the chest deep sometimes you know even went beyond the map sat so important that we be

a little bit more aggressive and make sure that we respect any kind of people the pressure especially in these areas that are often get by severe i phones there's also been a weather disaster in indonesia where rescue is assessing for people feared buried beneath landslides that have killed fifteen people in west java at least twenty people are missing on tuesday said jeff at the polls because of heavy rain. government have killed at least thirty seven people in central marly women and children were among the victims and this is the latest in several violent incidents targeting ethnic for loni. a second party has withdrawn from sudan's ruling coalition putting more pressure on president omar al bashir amid nationwide protests save the living conditions those two political groups have joined the opposition parties who are pushing for bashir to step down he's rejecting that

demand on monday al bashir ordered an inquiry into the police response to demonstrations against him which at least nineteen people have been killed. that brazil's new president. was sworn in calling for unity and promising to free brazil of corruption and crime as well as improve the economy opponents worry about his far right to police more now from john home and he was there. standing in the shadow of her hero christina new year's day is the start of change help me that. it's the opportunity for the country to grow it's an opportunity to stop being the country known for corruption and this opportunity is named. to. fulfill the joy you've been to model for years he was a low profile congressman now he's been catapulted into power as the leader of south america's biggest economy but the far right populist has polarized brazil

supporters love his plain speaking style and hard stance from crime opponents fear his intolerance of activists minorities and ambivalence to the environment but but also noddles main promise beating corruption appeals to brazil's political class has been engulfed by scandal. it is full it is that this is the political favors force trading that needs to be left in the past we want the whole nation to benefit everything that we do henceforth has an undeniable purpose that is to put first and foremost the interests of brazilians. he's also promised to crack down on crime and revive a sluggish economy many believe that he can and not just his supporters leaving his inauguration in a poll just out sixty five percent of people said that they think he will do a great or a good job but this is

a man who's admitted you know as little about the economy and who's security plan has revolved around giving people great the access to guns and police more license to kill. also not as opponents worry about the lack of substance and his affinity to the military dictatorships of brazil's recent past in his speech to congress he committed to democracy but the effect was slightly spoiled by his final remarks directed against the leftist workers' party which governed here for years. this is our flag it will never be red even if we need to shed our blood to keep it green and yellow. but it was a warning perhaps for those who hope that he'll be a more moderate president than candidate john abell sonando may see no reason to change john heilemann. french president emmanuel micro

has had no shortage of challenges last year perceived as being out of touch anger with his government came to a head with often violent yellow vests protests which continue and there's been this myth ripples from paris across political rivals and trying to capitalize on the mood in the country to prepare for the next european elections in may. they have no leader no manifesto no political party and no candidate yet five months before election day for the european parliament france's main political parties a nervous about what they call the yellow vest effect was the. there's no political party that can decide on the out of the people we other french people that fought for the land and we continue the struggle no political party is above the french people. honestly i'm not going to fight because i don't want to fight the people who look down on us who talk to us disrespectfully who despise anthony leave us alone anonymously one of the protestors strongest demands after

tax relief is for direct democracy referendums rather than more elected representatives that worries e.u. leaders just forty percent of french people voted in the last european elections there is a real crisis stuff for presentation and and europe is part of it in particular as the open parliament is not so well known but by most people it's important to. show much better what true up is doing for people for all people from a high of three hundred thousand protesters nationwide in november to thirty thousand by the end of the year there may be far fewer yellow vests willing to take to the streets every week but polls consistently show support for more than seventy percent of french people support the political parties a trying to harness actually saying you know there's one thing i think that we can from on there are topics on the table meaning what actually is in europe it is your

opening and that's for them on the euro on the day to day basis only one opinion poll has tested how yellow vest candidates might fare in a european election and it suggested that when twelve percent of the vote and almost all asked would be at the expense of the far left and far right the same poll certainly. the public on the. twenty one percent of the whatever. the biggest problem might be. which is so far resisted attempts to create a leadership birds with al-jazeera powers. celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of its communist revolution led by fidel castro the ceremony included a speech by fidel's brother role in stepped down as president last year ending his family's six decade rule fidel castro inspired and guided leftwing movements throughout the region ever since the nine hundred fifty s. and now the left is out of power in much of the region. the revolution

has not grown old it is still young and that's not just rhetoric it's a historical reality. as imperialist ambition is restored in our region the united states must understand that latin america and the caribbean have changed and so has the world for our part we will continue to actively push the process of consensus and integration in the region based on the concept of unity in diversity. there argentina is known to have the best polo in the world and one of the reasons why is the quality of its whole says that it's not all down to nature animal cloning has become common practice in the sport and as today's a bow reports it's also created a heated discussion about the ethics of the practice. horses at the most important tournaments in the world to me although the same except that a few of these horses are clones. they were created here at this center

fifty kilometers outside when a site is catamaran keiser explains that to clone a horse they take tissue from the neck of the animal they want to copy then what's generated out of that tissue is inserted into an empty cell. there's no sperm here it's considered a sec. reproduction even though the initial cell we want to clone had a mother and a father. then they wait for a few days to see if the procedure is successful so they can later implant the embryo. this fall as you can see here is a clone of course said if playing argentina with polio championships it was created in a laboratory and implanted in this where it is expected to be as good as the original version. has been leading the cloning process in argentina he says that cloning has helped them accelerate the record auction process of what is considered

an exceptional horse. but he said we cannot clone experiences what nature does we copy it in a lab and it has inefficiencies it's always an imitation of nature and even though we reset to you just start from the beginning we cannot delete the genetic marks in the d.n.a. so it's not crazy to think that the clones are born with more experience than the original animal. considered argentina's best polo player has cloned his mare quite a bit more than a dozen times the manor and her clones are the stars of every tournament in the country. that on a report of the discussion over the ethics of horse cloning has forced the polo association to regulate what can be allowed in the industry. there is a big debate eight hundred twenty five laboratories want to mutate change and adapt and that's why our association with the government decided that cloning is one

thing and manipulating genetically is something else. the demand for horses is what has made this industry and even though ethical questions about animal cloning remain it has allowed some of argentina's best horses to transcend in time. when a site is. japan's emperor akihito has given his final new year's speech ahead of his abdication in april tens of thousands of people filled the courtyard of the royal residence in tokyo the eighty five year old was joined by his wife and eldest son as he wished the nation peace and happiness emperor akihito will be the first japanese mana in two hundred years to step down from the three. travis take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera for the first time in several decades

two women aged in their forty's have ended a hindu temple in india women between the ages of ten and fifty were banned until a recent ruling by the supreme court but hindu hardliners are still trying to enforce the old rule days of intense fighting between two armed groups in northern syria have left at least thirty one people dead is happening across two provinces aleppo and did live al qaeda linked fighters and turkey backed rebel forces are blaming each other for starting the violence the worse in this part of the country for three months is happening just days after u.s. president donald trump announced american troops will leave syria british politicians and international lawyers of all saudi arabia permission to visit detained activists they want to investigate allegations that they're being tortured and denied legal access. chinese president xi jinping is not ruling out using military force against supporters of independence in taiwan in his first major

speech addressing the people of the self rule illand she said taiwan's reunification with china is inevitable but the taiwanese leader has rejected the statement and said beijing the space reality. we are firmly against any plans to create two china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've achieved a major victory in a part against taiwan independence or separatist activities nobody and no party can change the historical and legal fact that taiwan is part of china and both sides of the strait belong to china. in the philippines rescue workers are struggling to reach areas cut off by floods and landslides that have killed at least eighty five people still milsom and hit just after christmas displacing around twenty five thousand people and in indonesia rescuers are searching for people feared buried beneath landslides that killed fifteen people in west java and

a train crash in denmark has killed at least six people and injured sixteen others it happened on the bridge which links the central danish islands of zealand and finn. those are the headlines coming up next hour here at al-jazeera is the stream . it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times we don't for eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh's central bank one used to investigate how cyber harker's the global banking system. on this is. hired by me ok and join the stream today we are joined by a superstar of afro beat me hootie we're talking about his music his commitment to activism and the inspiration for his latest album i really could be a lot of femi and his band will play some of his best known songs in the studio today and we want to hear your questions and comments join the conversation on

twitter facebook and the al-jazeera live stream. femi kuti is one of the leading lights of african music over a forty year career jazz and funk intoxicating effect having several grammy award nominations along the way his music is an inspiration to famous musicians including common and most stuff as well as younger african musicians starting their careers and he's strongly committed to progressive causes not least to his work as a goodwill ambassador for the united nations children's fund now femi is touring his tenth album the recently released one people one walt ellis.

every kid see. i believe my eyes you will hear all the strain welcomed by people who are into femi kuti kong so they have an experience that i have dipped into your instagram account to give people a little flavor so this was santa cruz california i'm just going to quit playing here so you can get the full effect of people. that look like. what i notice is that the audience is a come to see you are so diverse it tells me something about afrobeat about how it

reaches such a broad audience why you think you are able to do that i think probably is the character in the music of today because. i think i've been privileged to travel and use this as a direction to mold my music and so i think this reaches out to everybody and what i talk about happens in every nation really to police is their album one people one world everybody can understand this. we talk about justice peace and love it's very simple catchy wars that. kindergarten kind of so i think this is what cuts across everybody i think our community would agree we got this from edward on twitter who says i believe families music is more optimistic and this latest album his messages are more about is more about inspiring the next generation to be confident and to unite for a collective good africa will be great again is one of my favorite so he mentions her latest album what is it that's made this different than the other i think

experience and maturity and then of course my children being a father of two willie direct my thinking. your children come daddy you have to find answers and you have to find positive answers for your children you can't really be negative if you leave you feel that way so i'm even forced to now find solutions politically socially because my children demand this as a father from me so of i think my whole life has changed and i think this probably have to give this about seventy percent to my children making me more responsible and only sell your son is playing or that i'm from brazil just have a look at my laptop everybody this is this is a matter and he's playing on this actual hour it was what this is that me it's the greatest feeling a father can have a women parent i think when your you see your son doing well and not really torn

your your line what do you see in his smile being involved i mean it was. i don't believe is there a big award their love probably it was so emotional for me. i have to see people this picture here because. i've seen a lot of of images of you and your family and there's a picture here of you and your eldest one is a little bit young as he was nine and i just see love all i'm saying is this is love you're looking at him can you my jamie was. taller than me. but this is. so beautiful it's i mean life is so life is i mean those are the things i've made my music change because like this i go back in time and i see so my life goes quickly i see beauty in them in the world and i try to put this through my music before i was very i was a fighter you could see with my music from the album's tracks like stories or even

similar lives i was wrong or what happened to my father i was trying to live through that grunow and on like i said being a father myself see my children grow up seeing so much love around me or try to spread this around the world what goes on in my life you mention your father i mentioned your son this is a tweet we got bridging those two things this is someone who says as much as i think this comparison to your father. is not necessary his children i mean your children for me are doing a great job to me sign that said to carry on the legacy he might just bring and add a new flavor with it so people are recognizing that familial link there but i want to move on just a little to this because someone seeing the video we saw the very beginning of the show with the energy that you had there this person asks a question which i think it's on a lot of our minds how do you find the motivation to give us to almost free world class shows every week whenever you're in lagos at the do africa shrine you in your

band have been doing this for over a decade and the quality of the craft on display each time is inspiring i think this has to do with them to decrease on love for my people understanding that there's a lot of poverty around me and believe in our. contributes in the area where the shrine was billed was give people the privilege to just come in free and watch us and then he said to turn professional and the musicians around we have to understand that we shouldn't look down on the audience you never know who is watching you and so you have to respect it will be disciplined by dr house will we have to give the same kind of energy and this will make us more professionally professional and so this was my location to the band i'm happy those that have stood beside me or with alongside me on the stand what i'm doing it you feel this with the audience so we have about probably a thousand people come in we can we can't just watch the band for free so i'm looking here is boulder colorado femi kuti in the positive force boulder colorado what is the difference in the show that you did that and the show that you would do

at the shrine are you doing femi light when you're on tour and you do hardcore very shy but the difference the difference is we were costumes were more professional on top. lighter hearted but when we rehearse in yeah we put is like it's like a magnet you you have to put hundred percent of the competition starts you are flexible so we put like a thousand percent at the rehearsal when we want or even even make a mistake on stage you hardly hear and we can play around the mistakes we can joke about it because we have repeated it so many times so we are going to hear from you give one hundred percent in just a moment the first song on our show today no work no job no money but first let's hear from one of his fans i open coalescent us this comment about the impact of families at work. i love for me especially because he created his own mission of funky afrobeat blew our minds and we are connected very strongly with my generation

and femi house beauty has worked very hard to maintain that for me the woful be blunt you know since then he is music to me represents african conscious music tradition and he constantly reminds us that we should never settle for less money in the us long live fairly long live awful beats long enough ago thank you. the dumber than a. live oak i think nothing. little. concrete where contacting the bar to run we saw nothing.

so why did not all the fall be able to live. my life then when i find it difficult to give up on this little. prick on glasses i'm going to get off the bottom of the. nominee of the bar there's not a lot of the. night in. the long haul for long as they offer enough. vision to get. a long period. of mourning going through a good time for you all and maybe all the under thirty something awesome all of the

stuff going to the good and skills because it'll feel. good thoughts all. the suffering of the. good feeling not. the grief the need to talk really good for you aren't. going to result in a small the this is. well it's up for the case but it's not written out of the back and i mean not to try to get all three. through a plea bargain. he's a doctor they're both responses we've got to produce something probably come. along with this stuff enough to track missional guy. three. teams are truly sometimes people are. going to bring results.

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out the insults to. the the. common faith down let me tell me which the branding. with a band member so we can thank them this is everybody yes just listen to everybody and that's our band leader where you and me and. you have a lot by sharing one keyboards and. dances. but she's different on stage and we're just you know with i still say so to see the four and packed of dancing oh i want to talk about you actually you could hear that in that song every single song you sing i'm going to show an image and this is you doing some humanitarian work with the international rescue committee surrounding by

kids who love you and i'm trying to think what is the draw to i'm going to show one thing first this is kind of musician there are a bunch of kids. click play let's have a look. if they do nothing about drawn to you what is it that you bring when you go out and you go out into the community and you say i'm going to use my my fame is what are you doing. i'm taking humility i'm taking my honesty and most importantly the music along with me i took my i took my musical instrument and i think they also meant a wall wondering what was in my bag and they could say what's me about what's in

your bag so i opened it and. of course i think he realized it was a musical instrument is it politically and i was like all this was in my degree it was for. another to someone and i mean you have to see the the suffering that is beautiful it's really heartbreaking and i wish i had. the magic wand just like changed their lives and all i had was my musical instrument i didn't have enough money because they were very they were starving there and i thought all i could do was probably give them some pool play my musical instrument so i did play for them and then they said to follow me around like you obvious in the studio is it by the underdogs they said to follow me everywhere i was going i say what it was it was really it was nice very joyful so here are a couple more people that would likely follow you anywhere this is to perkins who is watching you perform on the show and says it was electric that means energy is a rare rocking the extreme studio someone else writes get energy that's his hand or

he says simply inner genetic pushing on to the top and you were just talking about why people are following you this is a world publicist who says his music touches on the true story of nigeria and the need for gerry adams both young and old to read about and remember their history he also addresses societal issues like poverty unemployment and political issues like corruption on his songs those can always be popular topics. you're exposing corruption you're doing it through song these are serious issues that the lyrics that i wrote down different resources from africa in the last last song we heard what's the pushback what do you face in terms of obstacles when you get up very difficult for you to get rid of these days i get for free which is fantastic. when we build a shrine it was we had lots of police raids and for a good eight years this was so hard to move into the shrine and i had to move in with my children and to build somewhere very safe for them on top of the building

like a secret compartment where we were just having police risk after police raids and this went on for good it is but this reminded me of my father so i stood strong many people don't realize all this happened in my life because i had like a complete blackout from the media the the government paid a lot of meat. people were not to write about the raids or what was going on so it was a complete blackout in my life so but at this time i had i still had the opportunity to talk so unfortunately for the government i was still making my name was creating a big impact in san francisco miami wherever i was storing parties i mean i have very strong support outside the country and people back home don't realize this because nobody really talks about it thank god for social media now i compose this shows and people like you talk to people on social media all the time they don't

even believe is i mean by the. way that you write rather than because i'm very tired or my english can be very bad and forgive me for that people people come to the shrine now because it is famous because you are playing them because there is a more i was there i am so glad you see. first of all let's see him dancing everybody so you have to believe that even the president france will be done saying at the shrine of the irony of that this is a very limited i think. that. he was trying to escape so if moved like a night it. was more like. this i was doing all the moves by

you've got here he's here here is he sitting at this right have a look at my laptop here and there's a there's a little secret so he's here he's a very nice things about president mccraw he's having a fantastic time units haven't you chad. is you obviously boned it is and you don't like politicians because he was very honest i have to see he reached out to me and said he wanted to come to the shrine and many people like pretended they were bringing him and when i saw him face to face was i wanted to calm here what's june two thousand and two and what he what i got from him we spoke about the my great crisis he was willing to address africa's problem and princie and france's role and so the next time i have the opportunity i'll be speaking frankly with him on many of these issues that i'm very concerned about but he was very open he didn't have this kind of barrier like or like a snob kind of thing and he he he insisted he wanted to come to this trying despite all the feedback like don't go and he was like he even said it several times i was

fine we could see in two thousand and two people pretend it was my father but to pretend it was because of my father and no matter how many times a mentioned my name they give credit to my father so i took it to another level well whether it's for me is still a pull simple it's a game we're playing africa has to be for you making a statement by a thank because he is the slowest so. it's fine for me the call my father my name the bottom line this rhyme is there for there must be one of africa and we want total freedom for africa to excel and i strongly believe given the opportunity africa will excel and will be there we have the world imagine we had real allies like in europe i mean can you imagine travelling from lagos to dramas but by train those kind of trees we see three hundred center kilometers per hour while the beauty africa will spread in the wall and this is what i see this is my dream with my music that way to this last question from someone also named family if you are not in nigeria. no you. only here on

twitter says please ask him what he thinks about new they do generation of musical activism. in africa. i would want to be critical of the artist because we were all young and we bought their song that are very. outspoken these days i think i heard one of i can remember the names i think and follow i know he's outspoken very few that are speaking out but what my the only thing i fear about is i wish more than musical instruments because what happens in music is a serious law or medicine what happens when they get to my age and is that going green on board another generation will come and the only reason you'll be relevant is eve you have something to offer for the next generation my father is important because he was a composer historied music you talk of people like miles davis disagree less be your stevie wonder they are all irrelevant because the music is should be seen as

medicine or law or in you know not a little grayer than this picture here with you and your fella right you are still growing so there are so we're going to end this show with another performance from the ferry thank you so much better when you land the pasta fourth. one people one world that's a live thing over on his latest album and while he gets set up let's hear from angelica joe another african music legend who's touring with sammy and had this to say are you working before somebody recently also as you said goodwill ambassador both of us will be working on many issues in his image his honesty has always come across very strongly and most importantly being the son of a legend is easy but he kept the torch very high by keeping him making afrobeat believe in more than forty.

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no place. in the right. place. for. easy and obviously. a controversial politician elected to the highest office in latin america's biggest country. brazil is about to inaugurate its new president. joins us live from the capital brasilia on inauguration day quite. a cultural history of some scribe layer upon layer at times erase

others rejuvenating and reinvented. through the transformative power of public art an unlikely collision of hip hop culture and indigenous tradition forms a community building project led by the godfather of graffiti. on a. the for. the for. the for for. the. bigger and potentially more dangerous than some of us would describe what's happening with the smoking alternative known as favorite.

between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen a lone star trip among us high school students and head to head. first this convention which one do you think is my opinion i think they're both takes no. for you. and live from studio fourteen here at the headquarters in. welcome to the new.

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the u.s. streaming service netflix taking down an episode of comedy show patriot acts in saudi arabia at the government's request i'm satisfied with dogs and more do you get in such a nice life throughout the show with your comments and a half cite for that is a.j. you screwed. me over the news good live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and al-jazeera dot com now to women and the indian state of carola have defied a long time battle entering a hindu temple and the move has led to protests and a backlash from conservative and the groups it's also turning into a political fight between the communists who are in power and carola and promising that in the morning is hindu nationalist b j p with national elections due later this year though such a body has the latest. the under the cover of darkness and escorted by

police these two women defied religious hardliners by entering one of hinduism holiest shrines the shop to remodel a temple in the southern state of carola which attracts millions of worshippers ear their historic move is backed by india's supreme court which in september ordered the authorities to lift a ban on women or girls between the ages of ten and fifty from entering the temple . but the temples authorities refused to abide by the court's ruling and subsequent attempts by women to visit have been blocked by thousands of the booties supporting the bam conservative hindu group say they believe women of menstruating age would defile the temples in a shrine local media is reporting the chief priest briefly shot the temple for purification rituals. it disappear me any issue of politics and electoral politics by am saying days after these two women ended up being a shy and dead in

a year but dad. did the atmosphere in that. piece for that he would be spared there'd been these three men very endearing there did not object there did not paris is their very very peacefully silently allowing gays to be meant to go and watch it before that board. the care of a state president of the hindu nationalist party claims that these events are politically motivated the b d p has been seeing local government orchestra going to plan what happened there declared a missile destroyed. to achieve the community's going to photo any devious means advantage to be did this. on tuesday millions of women from across the state formed a six hundred twenty kilometer human chain and called it the woman's wall it's an issue that's become increasingly contentious in the run up to india's general election schedule for me on the door such a party al-jazeera right inside politics aside this story has

received a lot of worldwide support on social media many people are calling it a historical moment for women's rights and the support especially for the hash tag women wall carola amongst many others now the six hundred plus kilometer line of women is also being called a war of resistance now females of all ages of been taking part not just around the small and big towns in carolina but also in other cities across india to now taking part as well will miss them women in solidarity and they stood shoulder to shoulder as you can see there the majority of hindu women during this process will. the entry of women and sub are among the today is a historic win for us it is a victory of the movement of equality and it is a victory of the women's empowerment because after the verdict of the supreme court i made some protest against women entering the temple well today that protest has become unsuccessful as the women have still entered. the words if.

you have ever never thought. that should be a bad. boy then maybe men. know showing that. since you know right you don't mind what we want to watch and we want that white and get this he. didn't do it. he. just won't do it. well. and. the. me already. so as you can see there's some very feisty voices including that of men but the number of women taking part in the war was

much higher actually then pons in fact it was organized by the communist party who were in power in the moment but some people have been sharing their own photos of those taking part in the wall and this one is actually by someone called muso who tweeted this picture of his baby niece and karen as chief minister. and also on of the women in a facebook post even though it is written in but he calls it the biggest movement in india to protect women's rights as per the constitution and against those defining defying denying rather gender equality but also things that have got heated since that war. but police have fired tear gas and used water cannons against a group of conservative protesters including women in the state's capital they're very angry at the visit they say by the two females that are supporting the temple's refusal to abide by the court's ruling allowing women into the temple may

have called for a strike by conservatives as well and we have many people watching us from india to read love to know your thoughts you can get in touch with us on this story and any others and you can also get in touch me directly on twitter and the handle is at its. sorry thank you very much for that now we are going to get more on this we're joined by m.g. in other krishnan he's the editor of asia net news and he's joining us live from fidelman on the put him in kara very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so before we talk more about the politics of this what is going on here in india with the sort of why has this been so divisive we have many people protesting the supreme court ruling but millions of women out on the streets supporting it so how important a moment would you say this was for women in india to begin with. well this is a quite a historic day for him and of india has loads of him enough particulate so

this has actually worked to kill it you voted to keep it as a safety net as a fact because a large section of human who. was supposed to you know who would expect or do you know support this particular word it or the supreme court already. genda just used in fact many of them have actually of course this in the name of you know faith and in the name of and mentions the name of traditions except at the same time there's also another major movement of women reach was that in display as today in the new new women's vault who have actually come in support of the traditional lord and also have in my under their right and this particular temple and we thout in the us to action or without any bar almost on the

same footing as that may come apart so there's this particular word eight divided the society but it doesn't mean that one particular section it's more on one side or the less i know this is a divisive issue and dede is the ruling b.j. p. you know which is saying that the supreme court ruling is an attack on hand values is it using this issue to its advantage like it has used religious issues in the past the b.j. peace chief and kara was overheard saying that this was a golden opportunity for the group. absolutely it's a region this is the real godsend because and get us to eat the southernmost state of india b.g.p. has been there less that led to the maze of other political parties like the communist parties of the congress party in fact that the gypsy has not got more

than four or five dozen seats in the state elections and they have in the last more than seventy years of history on that they have gained is just one seat in the hundred and forty seats assembly and that only in the last elections so b.g.p. has been looking for an opportunity political opportunity in getting because they have been growing like in the rest of the rest of the country but canada has remained completely under that support for them because of the conditionals three traditional reign of the bipolar politics of fiddler. one led by the congress and the other the commonest let's put this is for full for the b.g.p. and good and this is almost like the opportunity to try to act you know it's yeah so for them this is an opportunity and i would i would say that you know been going to have some in you know some kind of gay electoral gain in the next election

especially among the upper cost in the riemann and men as well who you know who were not quite. supportive in the last for insight into a cost new organization called in the society because it remained this den from b.g. has come to its forward in this particular issue so they're going to gain the same day and they're going to some wars from the war russians that includes you know if the b.j. ping gain from this issue is that most a loss for the sort of rule of law and d.m. because the supreme court did rule that the bad violative and gender equality. that is right but but because of this particular issue is you know it's mixed with religious they and you.