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is there is that wet weather for the east the side of china central areas seeing some snow and then it's a mix of rain sleet and snow for many as we go on into sunday and that wet of weather will sink a little further south was even hong kong could see a few spots of frank twenty one celsius temperatures falling away fun to drive across much of end of china philippines also generally set that the shallows say will continue as they should do across much of malaysia northern parts of indonesia still seeing some a rather wet weather for saturday and i think as we go on into sunday what's a still into a good part of java to carter for example could see some localized flooding is the right really sets in through the second half of the weekend could also see some weather making its way towards flank of the eastern side of the island over the next couple of days and basin pieces of plant just moving in here for much of india here it is fine and dry with pleasant sunshine think a cloud up towards the northeast and cool and it will gradually make its way further north and east. the weather sponsored by countdown and.
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everything we do is being analyzed it's been great and it's been measured that's for intelligence agencies are they a task to do things in secret that are on a lawful or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew chose to retire from the n.s.a. leak could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance digital dissidents on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s.
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president donald trump has declared a national emergency funds for a border wall of mexico the president made the announcement after approving a spending bill to avert another government shutdown. as well as president does accuse the u.s. of trying to destabilize his country in an interview with al-jazeera nicolas maduro also criticized european nations accusing them of supporting u.s. military intervention. at least sixty six people have been killed in northern nigeria just hours before saturday's presidential election police discovered the bodies and eight villages in can do in a state twenty two of them were children the state governor. says arrests have been made in those called the public to avoid revenge attacks five people have been killed in a shooting in the u.s. city of chicago police say the gunman who was an employee at a manufacturing site in the area has been killed by police officers have also been injured india says it will completely isolate pakistan following thursday's suicide
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bombing in indian administered kashmir at least forty four security personnel were killed and dozens wounded pakistan denies any involvement in the attack were bird money as more. a solemn occasion in indian administered kashmir the home minister russian of thing helps to carry the coffin of the soldier killed in thursday's attack. at security pass now targeted when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into the convoy on the highway. prime minister observed a moment of silence to remember the victims before he gave a warning. our producer. i want to tell the terrorist groups and their patrons that they have committed a huge mistake and they will have to pay a big price for this. it's the worst attack to hit the disputed himalayan region in
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three decades the pakistan based armed group jaish e mohammad says it's responsible for the attack although islamabad denies any involvement india has accused it of allowing armed groups to operate freely it's issued a diplomatic protest to pakistan's envoy in new delhi and withdrawn trade privileges offered to islam about pakistan's foreign ministry issued a statement calling the attack a matter of grave concern saying they've always condemned heightened acts of violence in the valley. has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven both countries claim the entire region where tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades the latest attack targeted a large military convoy investigates the still trying to piece together how the armed group was able to strike such a sensitive target what is the nature of explosion. what does it.
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as india's national investigation agency begins its walk activist came out onto the streets of indian administered kashmir with many chanting anti pakistan slogans. the government to shut down into this and some areas and the military has imposed a curfew in the attempt to restore calm about a manly zero. a british football fan detained in the u.a.e. for wearing a qatar football shirt says he was convinced he was going to die. that is back in the u.k. after being released he said he was stabbed in prison and deprived of food water and sleep for several days the twenty six year old went to an asian cup match between qatar and iraq while on holiday last month and says he didn't know showing support for qatar in the u.a.e. is a punishable offense antigovernment protests have broken out again in haiti and demonstrators say they won't stop until the president resigns morey's is refusing to step down
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despite more than a week of rallies which have killed at least eight people as the latest from the capital port au prince. after a brief calm on thursday protesters once again took to the streets of port au prince demonstrators marched near the presidential palace calling for the resignation of the haitian president the crisis has put much of port au prince on a sort of lockdown businesses are are closed schools are closed people are having a very difficult time finding access to water and finding access to food we went out today and saw dozens of people protesting on the streets near the presidential palace but we also saw parts of port au prince that are sort of returning to a sense of normalcy people once again walking on the streets of the city vendors once again selling their products on the streets but there is still a lot of discontent left here in the city people are not convinced by what the president said that they a solution to the problems the economic problems that plagued this country is actually on its way the president did in his speech on thursday evening that this
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got that the government would soon be. giving a proposal for finding a solution to the ongoing political crisis but we haven't heard anything from the government as to what those next steps are actually going to be people here angry over government corruption yes but they're also angry over the systemic economic problems that continue to plague the country haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere certainly the poorest country in the americas coupled with a declining economy over the last couple of years skyrocketing inflation even when things are calm in the country it's difficult for people and having no guarantee that that things are going to improve in the daily lives of haitians it's no wonder it's no it's not difficult to see why people are taking to the streets to protest things nine people including children have been killed in a bombing attack by the syrian army what happened in the bubble held city of the handshake whom which isn't in the public syrian civil defense volunteers posted this video showing them trying to rescue civilians in the rubble destroying
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buildings. nine saudi soldiers are reportedly been killed near the border with yemen saudi media says they died during fighting with who think rebels who say they're for the major offensive by saudi forces in three locations along the southern border the armed group has been under constant bombardment by a saudi and iraq led coalition now more than five hundred global leaders that been meeting in germany for a conference on international security one of the major concerns is the threat of the armed group eisel high level delegates from russia iran the e.u. and the u.s. are attending reports now from live for. the world's top annual gathering an international security is in full swing leaders debating the biggest challenges facing a world one of those challenges described by the conference as the biggest where two western democracies is russia's and china's growing military ambitions.
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u.s. president donald trump is waging a trade war against china and has given notice of his intention to withdraw from a decades long arms control treaty with russia. then where is the world's biggest beer to powers could be on a collision course it's a mess to speak very honestly about it it's a mess and i'm very much concerned bards a world on fire. and don't think a new world war is strengthening but instability may be their ryszard of all this and the reason is that we have seen a withdrawal of the us from global affairs. the us is sending its largest congressional delegation to the conference the trump administration has
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ramped up its rhetoric against iran and wants the e.u. to withdrawal from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal. the move dismissed by the e.u. russia china and many countries concerned citing fears that withdrawing could lead to more violence in the middle east iran has other resources yes it has friends in europe and it also has friends in the neighboring region and has friends in russia and china and it seems pretty unlikely that this kind of u.s. pressure can itself crush iraq wars in the middle east of the fight against on the agenda here in munich many countries in the region are some of the biggest arms buyers raising concerns about further instability. there is about ink pressure to end the war in yemen the four year conflict has created the worst humanitarian crisis in recent years themen is perhaps the worst place to be
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a child right now and that that is why we need the peace talks to continue we need unimpeded access for humanitarian help and of course we need the warring parties to stop bombing each other indian. since it was launched in one nine hundred sixty three the munich security conference has been promoting the ideals of the international liberal order that has prevailed since the end of the second world war but the international liberal system faces its biggest crisis briggs's continues to send shock waves across europe populism is on the rise and autocratic powers are determined to defend their interests a new political reality creating more uncertainty and anxiety in the world has. munich spain's prime minister pedro sanchez just call it general election after losing an important budget vote people will now head to the polls on the twenty
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eighth of april this will be the third election in four years politicians who support in the pendants for the catalonia region were among those who voted against the proposed budget on thursday. spain must continue to advance and progress from a point of tolerance and respect from moderation and common sense excluding politics from frustration growing and creating quality employment and redistributing wealth consolidating and recognizing not just the rights and liberties we gained in the last forty years but also expanding the perimeter of those rights and liberties strengthening social cohesion and territorial cohesion as the only guarantee to preserve spains unity for this i announced you with the powers given to me as prime minister of spain and after consultation with the council of ministers i proposed dissolving the chamber of parliament and the convocation of a general elections for twenty eighth of april despite the white house says u.s.
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and chinese officials will meet in washington next week they'll continue trade talks after a two day meeting in beijing failed to produce an agreement president xi jinping met u.s. treasury secretary stephen the nation to work out a deal on tariffs the two sides are trying to reach a deal before march the first when the u.s. plans to increase lettings on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods. thousands of nurses on strike in kenya have defied a deadline given by the president to return to work or risk losing their jobs they've been on strike since the fall demanding the government pay money that's owed to them. this is my sorry national referral hospital it's one of four public health facilities a narrow view. of joins thousands of those from several counties across the country that have gone on strike saying that they want their demands met they have defied
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many of them have defied a presidential directive telling them to come back to la on friday or they will be fired the president to get to the day to actually show that. because i don't think you were stored. in twenty seven thousand not. implementing. a labor cabinet secretaries no compromise not moscow to walk he says that this strike is illegal and has been deemed so by the industrial court which ordered the nazis to go back to walk and allow room for negotiation that is going to be a big meeting on saturday between the mideast health ministry officials government officials and the knox's union as well to mop out a way forward implementation of this payment of these allowances.
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and it is a process. that is. going to. be the nasa's of public hospitals and they deal with the majority of kenyans who cannot afford to go to expensive private hospital they walk on bags creamy strain yes conditions and they say they're disappointed when the government says it cannot afford to pay them yet they see for example members of parliament often increasing their benefits yet they see a corruption which is rampant in this country and they say they just want what is due to them and that is just about a hundred and fifty dollars each to be paid out that was to be paid out in faces. schoolchildren across the u.k. have opted to skip school to hold a protest on the climate change and disney baka reports as part of
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a wider global movement involving tens of thousands of children. the next generation is finding it's for. some voices are smaller than others. but together they form a chorus. demanding urgent action on climate change it's a day of coordinated strikes by children across the u.k. . with people skipping school to protest are you worried about the state of the climate in the amazon handling. of this if we keep playing during the week to land and we love having the lights a fire and we live without the light friend sings we need and so i think that somewhere. i am one would use the school thank you for an offering and still i don't. i think in the elephant in the snow. means that it's
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not that said in the demonstration is part of a much wider global movement schools for climate. action is growing quickly on social media. in the past few months tens of thousands of children in belgium germany scandinavia and australia have taken to the streets. it began with a fifteen year old swede. who skipped class to protest outside government buildings in september accusing her country of not following the powers climate agreement she even took a protest to the world economic forum in davos but. according to the un intergovernmental panel on climate change there are only twelve years left to bring global warming under control before the damage is irreversible. unprecedented systemic change is needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by at least fifty percent. by the perceived lack of action when it comes to government dealing with
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climate change i don't know if you lead to this i doing it is moving the stake if you check into down to the people who try to size what we're doing it today i want to say how else are we meant to participate we don't have the food none of us have a voice other than making a hot outside parliament here if we want to actually be able to survive rather than out this impending sense of doom that global warming brings. a larger global mobilization of children is planned for next month many of these demonstrators know it isn't enough to be young articulate and informed there's a sense of urgency a feeling that if they don't do something who will. al-jazeera london. time for a quick check of the headlines here the us president donald trump has declared
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a national emergency the access funds for a border war with mexico the president made the announcement on for approving a spending bill to have another government shutdown. we're going to be signing. today and registering a national emergency and it's a great thing to do because we have an invasion of drugs invasion of gangs invasion of people and it's not acceptable fun as well as president as accuse the u.s. of trying to destabilize his country in an interview with al jazeera nicolas maduro also criticized european nations accusing them of supporting u.s. military intervention. i think that some europeans made a mistake when they supported the american war in iraq can you ask any of the coalition countries was it necessary to intervene militarily in iraq and divide it and kill millions of its people i think they also made
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a mistake when they bombed libya and killed more than one hundred thousand civilians can these areas be corrected i think they made mistakes in their destructive policy approach in syria and are making more mistakes with venezuela. at least sixty six people have been killed in northern nigeria just hours before saturday's presidential election and he's discovered the bodies and eight villages in kaduna state twenty two of them were children the state governor. says arrests have been made and has called in the public to avoid revenge attacks five people have been killed in a shooting in the u.s. city of chicago police say the gunman who is an employee that a manufacturing site in the area has been killed india's government is promising a strong response against pakistan which it blames for the worst attack in indian administered kashmir in decades at least forty four indian soldiers were killed by a car bomb on thursday at least nine people including children have been killed in
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a bombing attack by the syrian army happened in the rebel held city of hunch a coon which is the syrian civil defense volunteers posted this video showing them trying to rescue civilians from the rubble of destroyed buildings. all right so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera the inside story. anger on the streets and a war of words between governments our first day to tackle the security forces in indian administered just the entire body and relations between india and pakistan this is inside story.
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welcome to the program i'm so whole robin a full blown crisis is looming between nuclear rivals india and pakistan prime minister narendra modi is promising a fitting response against an attack in indian administered kashmir but killed forty four of its paramilitary forces islamabad has condemned the incident and has denied supporting the group thought to be behind it laura but manly has more. a solemn occasion in engine than minute to. the home minister rush nothing helps to carry the coffin of a soldier killed in thursday's attack i one of dozens of security personnel targeted when a suicide bomber drove the car packed with explosives into the convoy on the
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highway. prime minister observed a moment of silence to remember the victims before he gave a warning. our producer. i want to tell the terrorist groups and their patrons that they have committed a huge mistake and they will have to pay a big price for this. it's the worst attack to hit the disputed himalayan region in three decades the pakistan base on group jaish e mohammad says it's responsible for the attack although islamabad denies any involvement india has accused it of allowing armed groups to operate freely it's issued a diplomatic protest to pakistan's envoy in new delhi and withdrawn trade privileges to islam about pakistan's foreign ministry issued a statement calling the attack a matter of grave concern saying they've always condemned heightened acts of violence in the valley. has been divided between india and pakistan since one
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thousand nine hundred forty seven both countries claim the entire region where tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades the latest attack targeted a large military convoy investigates the still trying to piece together how the armed group was able to strike such a sensitive target what is the nature of it. what. nation. as india's national investigation agency begins its walk activists came out onto the streets of indian administered kashmir with many chanting anti pakistan slogans. the government to shut down into this and some areas and the military has imposed a curfew in attempt to restore calm for inside story lure about a man. let's bring in our guest for this edition of inside story from new delhi. professor and dean of the gentle school of
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international affairs in london bitterest schofield a historian who's written a book on the conflict and in islamabad imtiaz gul head of the center for research and security studies in the capital markets of pakistan thanks for joining us here on inside story. i come to you first relations between india and pakistan have never really normalized since independence and the subsequent partition of the subcontinent in one nine hundred forty seven in two thousand and nineteen one can't really see this getting any better in the light of what's happened in the last what thirty six hours. that's right and i think it's taken on a new dimension if you could take the historical standpoint and nine hundred forty seven it was our territory and then you know it marched into something else kind of an independent struggle by some kashmiri muslims in the pakistani support and now
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you know increasing the last two decades of sort of more we're seeing that it so you know that's the focal point is this jihad this violence and the indian companies against the against it so the attack on our security personnel just confirms this shift and as far as india is concerned you know the central point for us you know the point of contention is this violence against our civilians and our security forces so it is being seen with a lot of outrage and something that's totally beyond the pale and unacceptable and just the scale of the attack and the number of deaths of our soldiers you know there is a national consensus that we must do something about it and i think prime minister narendra modi here if he hits one phrase it is a soft state and i think he has been isn't that career has been built up on having a robust national security portfolio in his governance and now he's reaching the end of five years his first term i think he's increasingly going to move towards
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you know a mighty pronged response including you know tactical surgical strike by special operations forces possible our diplomatic isolation campaign on a global scale economic punishment and also lobbying the u.s. to try and prevent pakistan from getting the i.m.f. bailout that they have been seeking for a long time and also trying to squeeze the pakistanis by making up with china which is of course now the number one benefactor and innovate and all that a lot of pakistan through the through their investments and loans ok so you're limited you know not to secure that i mean if you tell us to let me discipline and let me come in next and looking for a big boost to chile let me come in there let me just come in. i think you've hit a lot of bases there that we need to discuss in depth throughout this whole program let me bring in victoria schofield you heard what our guest in new delhi had to say victoria you've actually written extensively on the whole kashmir conflict for for many years is this a seismic shift in policy from the militant groups is this about
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homegrown terrorism on indian soil that's been exacerbated and encouraged from pakistan is pakistan to blame lots of questions here about this particular attack and how it's actually impacting both on new delhi and islamabad well i think there is a certain seismic shift in that this is mark signifies yet another nosedive between india and pakistan if you're looking at the two countries in several nosedives over the last forty years but this is another very significant one in terms of what actually is it is you dispute over the former princely state of german kashmir i think unfortunately in the last several decades people have lost sight of what that dispute was and they're it's almost like they're hating each other for the sake of hating each other and this is why i think it's absolutely essential for an element
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of restraint to be used because actually india and pakistan indians and pakistanis don't hate each other but somehow the rhetoric gets whipped up with the domestic community is that you can almost see this deteriorating into into a war situation if that element of restraint isn't used as a present to sitting down finally and saying what do we actually fighting over in relation to general in kashmir and we have to resolve it let's bring it into go here you've heard what the first two speakers have said you know and victoria talks about restraint is required from the politicians on both sides of the border the blame game has already begun really as far as new delhi is concerned accusing. pakistan of supporting these indian based militant groups pakistan denies it as it always does through its foreign ministry how long can pakistan continue to take this sort of position when it's been firmly proved in the past that such operatives
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are based in pakistan do expose very extremist views about india and how both its civilians and its military should be treated why why have they not acted when i think in the first place the person who carried out the attack. is a native born and. he may have been tied to the death your mama but the problem is existent existed baited by this finger pointing instead finger pointing within minutes of the attack pointing to pakistan and equating the act of a non-state actor to that of us take it state actor so i think there in the problem lies by this than has banned all these are going to buy christan has had its own problems its own debts more than three hundred fifty suicide bombings massive suicide bombing the last ten years which of thousands of people bugs are never said
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that it's because of the in for terrorist infrastructure in india or the indian support for the afghan based terrorists many of them are pakistani and so somehow the indian indian leadership shall have to restrain itself from pointing fingers instantly at pakistan that and engage in dialogue spoilers on board sides and i think repeatedly we have dealt with those whiners so pakistan's as far as i know has been trying to wean these people away pull the rug from under the feet of all these are going as asians bet it has a social political dimension and that is what is. this training factor for pakistan as far as totally did neutralizing or neutralizing. and there the huge garda it's hundreds of thousands of people learning in their seminaries following them india has bugs on has limits to to do the things that india want let me just come
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in there because you talked about sort of states or non-state actors i mean it's the non-state actors such chance masood us or who lives in pakistan who's admitted that it's his group and his influence that's hard. behind this attack and so when somebody so vocally admits to if you want to put it and he's simply the crime why can't the state prosecute this man even though they've banned his group obviously has support does he not to be able to roam freely in pakistan well i think there is a very heavy fence that separates pakistan pakistan and india in kashmir and i haven't heard any any direct claim from just your mom head or their center leaders that they get it out this attack there's a statement by a young man a native indian origin kashmiri and i think now to equate that yes you're right
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the organization exists here but i think these are being banned barred from taking operating out of pakistan there are to be logical synergies that are available yes and this has borne out of the origin and sent and the additional center was the soviet invasion of afghanistan and the american the sponsor to do that for which all shares of religious organizations entities were used by the americans by the west and by pakistan and this is the spread over the fact and right now what india is dealing with is the second ative or regional. wave of terrorism militants that have grown with wines and i think there don't want india. to to to be around so i think there it has to be dealt with politically rather than pointing fingers at every time a bomb goes off ok we can carry on with this debate or even for new delhi and i know that disagreeing with some of what you had to say in terms of you know what we
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think of militant and terrorist groups as just move the sun sriram to one to develop this conversation more. than pro independence armed groups have been banned by india but seemingly operate. in a controlled way perhaps in the the region of indian administered kashmir. it is a very militarized area i've been there myself i've seen how the military are deployed it's must have a huge intelligence operation in that region so what went wrong with the intel if you have that much military personnel and you have the intel how did they not know this was going to happen yeah sure i mean internal security we need to do a lot better and we need to plug a lot of the holes and the gaps through which has been exploited by pakistan being terrorists so one thing is sure you know india has one hundred eighty million muslims and there are only six million of those who are from crush me or so the
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claim that somehow muslims are oppressed in india and facing human rights abuses and are living under some kind of colonial rule that has been exploited to the hilt by the pakistani intelligence agencies and their proxies like this generation muhammad the for example are lush going to tell you about these are proscribed dogmas ations but you know end of the day they operate the right under the noses of the security forces with impunity and they raise funds they have public rallies they have what jessica stern the eck academic from the u.s. once called a jihad culture and that has been exported to the how question valley which we control so indian kashmir and also we have a lot of youth poor are subject to this propaganda and with this hit create an incitement against india and that's how they're they're being exploited to be used for violence against our forces and i was sick and i was civilians so we have to look at the brainwashing and the indoctrination the salafist standard you hardiest
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ideology that pakistan is sponsoring i think that is much bigger and you look at the you know the top heads of these organizations they are living under the military intelligence apparatus is protection so my own view is that this problem cannot be solved as long as the military control sparked a stun and your destiny you know if you would want a kind of a democrat to give illusion there. prime minister more the strictures hands of friendship with no washer eve of any u.s. prime minister in two thousand and fifteen event a lot more we tried it out reviewed all the extended hand of friendship but it was a backstabbing all along so i think there the deep sense of betrayal frustration people don't want to engage diplomatically or with due respect to our friends in the industry. families i would say that restraint is not something an option if you have a weak jim you know if you're being hit repeatedly and we don't want to be seen to be you know a banana republic that can be played around restraint is not a solution you know you have to establish deterrence to tell all means and i think that is the consensus view here and the determined exactly what the prime minister
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modi is talking about india's goal you know he's talking about swift and strong action against pakistan what do you expect the indian prime minister to do to enact well i think a lot of people within india talking about the failures of the modi government then for the failure of the modi government's policies in fact and that he will do the hand at hand of friendship or hand of dialogue from pakistan but stan has been trying its best reaching out as much as possible to engage india and this is this is what one says from within india or also saying that india is being a very heavy prize for far more these bad kashmir policies a lot of former intelligence people leggo biba there are kumar is also talked about the abysmal failure of the indian intelligence but he also talks about this new generation of militants who have gone red wines under the indian operation in the
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last sixteen seventeen years and the real problem lies in the disconnect there currently exists between new delhi and kashmir so what more the and is colleagues need to do is to reach out not only to the disease disgruntle kashmiri you but also to pakistan if they attend pakistan. and is such a key to getting a solution for question is then i think better sense of what demand that the mahdi reaches out to to pakistan for finding a solution it's it's simply it cannot happen in an air of in of this in an area which is by a continuous a string of allegations blinding holding every. responsible for everything ok well let's just bring in victoria here mean obviously it's a very heated scenario no matter who you speak to victoria whether it's in india or in pakistan you're hearing what our guests are saying i mean in terms of trying to
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find a solution and also trying to find restraint how difficult is that for politicians on both sides at the moment because we always know there's always backroom diplomacy that goes on between any two nations and what has to assume there must be some form of backroom diplomacy that goes on between india and pakistan. well there has been very good diplomacy over the decades and i think what one has to do in this this current scenario is go back a little bit to the history and see what's happened before as you mentioned i've written on kasmir i wrote my first book which was published in one thousand nine hundred six that's nearly twenty three years ago and i'm afraid this is a repetition different players different prime ministers different actors but of of what's happened in the past and this is where i do think both governments have to actually take a step back and take stock and until they do something more than the tit for tat the blame game this is going to happen again and again and one always keeps saying
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with the next time it happens you know we must make sure it doesn't happen again but this is a rerun of of what has happened in the past and i feel we are losing sight of what the actual issue is the issues stand as we know from one hundred forty seven and partition but if you look at the state we talk about kashmir is there is a monolithic whole it isn't a monolithic whole we're talking about people who live in the valley of kashmir but the kashmir state jungle in kashmir is made up of jumbled adar gilgan baltistan on the pakistan administered side in this narrow strip of land that the pakistanis call as a jungle in kashmir and they they're all people there who have different aspirations and certainly these terrorist attacks don't help with the resolution and they certainly don't help the people living in the valley because. if there are politicians in india watching this program will certainly i'm sure on many domestic channels talking about how to resolve this is it now time to try and talk. or
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should i say is now time for new delhi to try and talk in a constructive manner to politicians civil society policy makers within indian administered kashmir to try and find out what they can do because there seems to be an impasse really on the domestic front in india does there not where if the community in the region that doesn't get what it wants at the moment and is happy with the way they're being treated there are demonstrations on the streets we've seen gunfire affecting families children the community at large when will be the right time to talk. i think it's got to have a significant spell of no terrorism and confidence building measures before he can we can even talk about the dialogue of pakistan what does not talk about them are talking about how to start talking to hundreds of it no notice have justice to charlie and not talking about pakistan talking about the indian government in new delhi speaking to civil society in indian administered kashmir they have heard
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mr modi's government has done very little talking he's opened railway lines open hospitals he needs to start talking to the people disney no let me get in please see a lot of these civil society you talk about in the kashmir valley are dems or separatists and they were in my international law they are indicating national and state are indian sascha only do the national institute in talking they are indian puppyhood holders they have the right and national israel not the whole of the lands and who do not resort to terror they are indian passport holders i have no right to speak to the government so i am the one who carried out those who said bombing was also an indian national the one who carried out a suicide bombing was also an indian national do you want us to talk to such people we talk to those who have resorted to nonviolence and were willing to work within the confines of the indian constitution and that's the most important point we have all of us said and prime minister more the us maintain it is pretty says you have always said we are willing to have an internal settlement as long as you drop the
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secession claim because as far as india is concerned even not to dialogue with our internal citizens in kashmir are with pakistan as long as this claim for revisionism is there you know if you are ok with the status quo if you want to reclaim part of the focus on occupied kashmir that's what we are looking at i don't think india right now any time the boss is willing to concede a single inch of territory or making a compromise on this so i think within that one spot you started drops the claim was a civil society in kashmir you are talking about our village to work within the confines of the indian constitution and india's territorial integrity and you live with that you know most second its movements have to. i don't rule out settlements for internal about of. those things as long as pakistan steers away and as long as the civil society does not go hand in glove kind of a soft separatism which is a kind of creating the just a few people in the ideological conservatives who are terrorists i don't want to know having to come to the end of the program but i do want to go back to victoria in london because victoria i know you want to get in and comment on what mr charlie
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has said but we are heading towards an indian general election and what's happened here could very well play out on a much more larger national scale i was wondering how you think this is going to play out and of course yes i thought you just this is the problem i think this is a problem that it's going to obviously for domestic community the indian government is going to play this is you as a sort of. a way to garner support if moody looks soft on pakistan this is not going to win many elections but what i do want to say is it which is very important not to lose sight of is that the indian government's policy towards the kashmir is has been to win hearts and minds and unfortunate this is what they were talking about twenty five years ago but unfortunately they have managed to do the exact reverse and especially since i've been traveling that the alienation in the valley is back up again and i think this is where the indian government has to really look to itself and say why is this alienation obviously
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when you have a high military presence you're going to have human rights abuses and it's this cycle of human rights abuses alienation that the government has to get out of in order to have this dialogue to win hearts and minds and it's going to be extremely difficult in elections that ideological ground for justifying terrorism historically and acceptable there is no moral equivalence between the two countries and frankly you know while it's just me a blind. one if you are given i think you know it seems you simply disagree you cannot a good story. is far larger. needs to be restrained this in this film is not wrong the sponsor of terrorism needs to be restrained ok mr kelly i think that obviously we can see that this particular subject on either side of the border and even independently is always a hot topic every time we discuss it and it's a very difficult certainly scenario that both india and pakistan are facing right now we will end inside story that i'd like to thank my guest victoria schofield it
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in the article for a very unlike ning a conversation thanks for joining us here in the studio and i'd like to thank you as well for watching this edition of inside story now you can watch the program again anytime by visiting our website at al-jazeera dot com and the further discussion you can go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story but also join the conversation on twitter handle is a.j. inside story from nice to hell rahman and the inside story team thanks very much for your time and your company.
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a team of chinese scientists embarked on a daring deep sea mission searching for rare resources and new species one of the nice reveals china's underwater hunt. on al-jazeera. leah and her husband gavin were sleeping when four teenagers broke down the back. the teenagers described as being of african appearance still on the run before all of this happened and i wasn't scared out of black people or people of color or. whatever to focus on african gang crime began in march twenty sixth seen when violence broke out at the moon the festival at federation square in the center of melbourne to gird suit of african young people coming together in the open there was a far cry get in because of my rolling all if you lot some of it was because the place becoming involved and we started chasing they just people in that crowd already did in the media at the top of a lot of political pressure. these people commit crime conspiracy to race whole
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human gets blamed for the actions of a few. people have to base cipher have to feel side to side there's a lot of perception issues i think that we need to deal with this well on counter because this week young that unemployed in africa first populous nation wide joblessness is such a huge problem in nigeria what shelving the a three eighty means for global attribute of passion just like you and me plus a look inside turkey goes to states counting the cost on al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan and the quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has declared a national emergency to access funds for
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a border wall of mexico the president made the announcement off approving a spending bill to avert another government shutdown we're going to be signing today and registering national emergency. and it's a great thing to do. because we have an invasion of drugs invasion of gangs invasion of people and it's not acceptable in an interview with al jazeera venezuela's president has accused the u.s. of trying to destabilize his country they close in the duros says the u.s. backed opposition's call to bring in aid on february twenty third is nothing but political theater and that he won't accept it but they're also criticized the european nations for supporting u.s. military intervention. i think that some europeans made
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a mistake when they supported the american war in iraq can you ask any of the coalition countries was it necessary to intervene militarily in iraq and divide it and kill millions of its people i think they also made a mistake when they bombed libya and killed more than one hundred thousand civilians can these areas be corrected i think they made mistakes in their destructive policy approach in syria and making more mistakes with venezuela. this does not happen and will not happen any material that comes from outside the country must be subject to certain conditions such as inspection and taxi as in all countries whether by air sea or land and then there will be no problems there for the trickle presentation they're attempting on february twenty third will not happen. after conducting a dialogue with the opposition in the dominican republic we agreed to hold the early presidential election in the first four months of last year after which part
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of the opposition withdrew and did not sign the agreement and eventually it was agreed on may twentieth these elections were conducted according to the law and the constitution and with international and local observers ten million voters participated in the elections and eighty six percent of the voters voted for me therefore the interim legislative elections were done and anything else is just whims an attempt to destabilize the country from the white house. at least sixty six people have been killed in northern nigeria just hours before saturday's presidential election police discovered the bodies in eight villages in kaduna state twenty two of the bodies with children state governor. says arrests have been made and has called in the public to avoid revenge attacks india's government is promising a strong response against pakistan which it blames for the worst attack in indian administered kashmir in decades at least forty four indian soldiers were killed by
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a car bomb on thursday five people have been killed in a shooting in the u.s. city of chicago police say the gunman who was an employee at the manufacturing sites in the area has been killed. and perhaps only one twenty four today in the world these apartments received multiple call for an active shooter at six forty one margin in the afternoon and then in fashion warehouse at one forty eight officers arrived and were fired upon immediately two of the initial four officers entering the building and shot additional officers began to arrive and more often fired upon a total of five officers were struck by gunfire the other officers on the scene don't even gunshot victims inside the building at this time we have confirmed that five it can be thirty feet a british football fan detained in the u.a.e. the wearing a cut off football shirt says he was convinced he was going to die ali is ahmed is back in the u.k. after being released he said he was stabbed in prison and deprived of food water
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and sleep for several days the twenty six year old went to an asian cup between qatar and iraq while on holiday last month. well those were the headlines that is continues here on al-jazeera of the digital dissidents stage and that's what.
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at the moment we are in a state of the universe like deception i took an oath to support for the constitution i take an oath sports. and study did something that was important and was asked to call these people superheroes is not so good because the church to look. for some people there superheroes for others simply traitors whistleblowers like daniel ellsberg thomas drake william binney and would snowden. hackers and activists like the wiki leaks founder julian assange and the former british secret service agent an emotional they want to support the complete surveillance of our society they oppose intelligence agencies governments and corporations and for this they are threatened hounded and imprisoned. quietly so committed what drives them. still.
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san francisco california. the cradle of our modern day computer industry home to creative technicians and visionaries hackers and whistleblowers. in a suburb of san francisco lives the godfather of all whistleblowers. daniel ellsberg . and probably the only whistleblower that i know of who can make a living as a lecture because i'm the one who was put on trial for a hundred fifteen years under one who isn't involved in the president being resigning because of his crimes against lee sure he made me notorious enough.
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that i can make a living here who literally. studied economics science at harvard in the one nine hundred fifty s. after graduating he enrolled like many fellow whistleblowers in the military. and of. you she courage fear all around you of a conventional sure high courage you've been trained for you've been disciplined for but you sheer it happens you have the training works and people are risking their bodies and their life. every minute. at the end of the one nine hundred sixty s. ellsberg worked at the u.s. embassy in vietnam. he became known by publishing the secret pentagon papers which proved that the us president had lied to the american public about the vietnam war for years.
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ellsberg decided to make the documents public after meeting peace activists who had refused the draft. i would not have thought of doing it if i didn't have the example of many many people . who are going to prison for nonviolent resistance to the craft. in one nine hundred sixty nine ellsberg began smuggling parts of the pentagon papers out of the government agency he worked for and copy them over the following months. a total of seven thousand pages of secret documents. in march one nine hundred seventy one he passed the documents to the new york times who eventually printed them. ellsberg surrendered himself and was charged with theft and unauthorized possession of pentagon material.
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the trial collapsed when it came to light that nixon and illegally wiretapped ellsberg. and agents had broken into his psychiatry ists office. ellsberg there after remained a free man. if they arrest me or indict me then i will say it was only me. patricia ferry next to me did cooperate. so happens and she i couldn't figure out why she wasn't indicted that way because she had done what a copy of. her free fragrance told the paper or here i thought it was because he didn't want such a beautiful woman sitting next to me at the defense table in front of the jury.
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i would advise people now not to do what i did to reveal themselves if they can avoid it. i reel my shield for this same reason no dear. essentially we knew that other people would be suspected and maybe even charged with concern consensual evidence against. people who might look more more guilty than you did. in a way i would rather take the risks of democracy than the risks. mr daniel ellsberg thank you. thank
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you have a third panelists will be joining us from russia one of the one of my real heroes and i think many people in this room many people in the hacker community many people in america edward snowden welcome. thank you more than forty years after daniel ellsberg n.s.a. employee edward snowden emerges as a whistleblower the usa now has a new public enemy number one. thanks to manning and now to you and getting more favorable publicity. and in forty years is already had. because suddenly people who were all for putting me in prison for life before now realize that i was really a very good guy i was the. i was the good whistleblower and so i'm i'm totally you of course rejected this from the beginning that i didn't want to be
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a foil for. showing a badly to people that i totally admired there was a moment of hope x. hobart's conference.

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