in embassies when will the bangladesh government stop pushing the ridiculous line the disappearances are not happening and will move these men be released so they can return to the family. when disappearances happen it is deplorable and but i have also stated that this is not a government policy of moving people so where is his client i wouldn't know since you are the lawyer you tell us ready is your plan you just want to respond when and with with proof there is credible evidence he was being held in dhaka can torment a military base in the middle of dhaka and that's credible evidence from foreign embassies and your government knows where he is no one believes that you don't know i don't even go further you're going to let me know what i thank you for the statement but you have said nothing you have just made a statement that he is your question he told you where he thinks you know it's your job to go check it out you are the only thing i know i am prepared to take it out but you know when you use the word credible well i have to take your word for it i

want to sell number is what i was i'm going for meaning he would give me something for less scrutiny we'll ask about the audience gentlemen here in the front thank you i covered the runaround applause factory collapse and the aftermath of that twenty thirty twenty thirteen which was convulsive event and which created a lot of promises from the government i'm just curious because it seems that now thousands of workers are demanding fair wages and have not been allowed to be unionized they're being shot at. and summerize. sacked from their job this is a recent protest of yes and. despite just two days after the election the government gave a seventy five percent tax break to factory owners and in a country which has the highest growth rate amongst rich people in the world. i don't know if you have been back since you covered rana plaza. anonymous changes

have taken place to begin with bangladesh is now fully compliant with its commitment to the. convention bungler this constitution fully allows. unionization there are no restrictions to it working with accord an alliance we have improved and made all the factories save we are insisting that the owners provide a million mom health care in the in the factories and as far as the government is concerned there is no rest whatsoever on unionization so you have princes do you regret that it took the deaths of hundreds of innocent people for these changes to come about on your watch you know tragically often a war tragedy forces pushes the momentum in the speed at which changes take place yes in that sense it was it

a tragedy did propel us to move fast second or what are the challenges and vision of present government in bangladesh after this landslide victory. our plans the visions are very very straightforward we have numerous steps by twenty twenty one we want to become a middle income state by twenty thirty we want to complete and fulfill sustainable development goals to the extent possible and by twenty forty two we want to be a developed country ok because a lady here in the front high east spoke about shahid i'm the niece of yes we've sat here and heard he say that there is freedom of expression in bangladesh but you know what happened to my uncle your friend. for scrutinizing the government perhaps not in a dissimilar way from what's happening now as

a journalist the way that made these a journalist also scrutinizing your government. we've all listened and laughed and debated about everything that's happening but the reality is that bangladesh is a living nightmare for thousands of people you deny it but there are torture there is torture extrajudicial killings disappearances the ugliest face of the human condition and if you're saying that everyone is lying then i think you're insulting people i'm asking you as a human being how do you feel about this and you comfortable with this i'm not asking as a politician i'm asking you as a human being i would like to give you a direct clue climb mt really like to give you a direct answer i understand your pity and i will also see with great respect to my friend. that and to compare him with what this journalist is doing

asking question. unfair. as i said earlier he was not arrested and i don't think one should be arrested for his journalistic work but for spreading misinformation the second thing second thing i want to say you just said that life is a living hell in bangladesh. do you have any idea how the quality of life for millions of people have improved in the last ten years how millions of people have moved out of extreme poverty and how it. has achieved higher social in this is in all respects compared to all if you go resigned all or none at all it's me or is just reading economic news you're on record so you're on record saying this isn't product development development is not

the same as democracy or the same you're the one who said i think these two work hand in has actually and you cannot exclude so i am coming to that but you said it is living living hell for thousands of people i am telling you their lives have improved that is not to say that if there is a breach of human rights if there is arbitrary arrest of people that we justify and we approach absolutely not and that is what i say the prime minister's current agenda high emphasis is on the question of governance and when i say governance it is a shorthand for all the thing that we all of us aspire to full liberty freedom of expression . you know. a real qualitative improvement and just on her first particular question to you personally as someone who's not a politician or your whole life the majority of you have to be the politician you are an academic a scholar you are teaching people about the world when you read these reports from academics from scholars from human rights activists all making the same claims

about enforced disappearances crackdowns on the press torture it doesn't bother you at all of course it bothers me as i said it is deplorable it is that. well these things are true and i also say to you whenever this information has come to me and i will not cannot at this moment divulge names i have done everything personally humanly possible to make sure including in the case of your uncle we could do not want to say publicly ok let's go out to the audience yesterday when in the dust then it should to be he's an advisor to the pm and he is a very intellectual man but does he call that when there is a crackdown on opposition and there is extrajudicial killing and disappearances even the opposition party doesn't have any freedom to gather free assembly or anything that cannot speak is that called democracy in bangladesh what has happened was not a crackdown what happened is again this is the law of the land that if you want to hold a public meeting you need to secure the permission of the police department so that

adequate facilities are provided but where the difficulty arose when two parties decide on the same day who hold their meeting in the same venue which police force in the world will allow very similar to the very same let's go back to the audience talk to reserve you've already answered a couple of questions on the enforced disappearances and some of the other human rights violations and you've used the term deplorable why have you refused to engage with the un special rapporteur and working groups when they've tried to engage with you on this issue and all you do is flatly deny the existence of these that is true what he said un special look all wrong record i can let me ask my colleagues we are working very closely with un special rapporteur us geneva but have you invited him to visit the country they always request us to come the country we always love that and i want to have any record where we didn't you know

where you are only going to tell you to take them to the going to take them some of the prisons we had mentioned earlier some of these people might be actually un special rapporteur has visit by. this is about this is prison once it's not a question of inviting them there have been complaints there have been request made by the special rapporteur that your government has not replied to not engage with in any way ok just before we finish one last couple questions for me very quickly. you're an advisor to shift a senior you've been for years you represent her here on the international stage you know that she's now widely considered by many people many journalists many governments to be leading bangladesh towards an authoritarian destination you may not agree with that view but you know that is the view of many people do you feel that view back to her does she care because there's a quote from her son where he says that she thinks it's a badge of honor to be called authoritarian well. you know what he was saying is when you have been cornered and authoritarian person the prime minister of malaysia

. mahathir mohamad has been so he was putting it in that quantity my point is this he has these things have been said we have heard it we have heard it in we hear it again and i think the reality is very different we have had regular elections not only i didn't know you made this point i'm asking about what is hard to do when you tell her this is what people say to me you travel around the world he nor the people raise these complaints who do you see she reads the newspapers he reads. how does it bother her daily briefing and she knows that this is not what she is and does it bother you you're an academic a scholar you people of a lot of times you've taught at harvard oxford before you join this government job or think you know what this is hard work going around defending your time to have but i could email you i can tell you one tea. while i would love to do that that let me say to you. i am truly delighted

to be able to stand and speak for a person who has qualitatively scenes the lives of millions of people and that is i and as she has promised herself that she's going to address many of the questions that have been raised so i think we should applaud her for what she has achieved. we should give her the credit where credit is due and to start believing that somewhere in the middle there was some people say she is very good somebody will say this is very red over here to take the middle written oh let's be a little bit more you have no plans to retire anytime soon i'm seventy i'm seventy this year congratulations thank you and oh i have a writing aspirations but at the same time i'm very privileged and honored to

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hello i'm sam is a this is the news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes. posts for peace in afghanistan as attacks by the taliban continue. the final push us back forces say on its way out of syria. hundreds of thousands of algerians take to the streets demanding that president should not run for a fifty. three you. lift off the post private mission to send astronauts to space is a success. and in sports the n.b.a. has seen its highest scoring game in nearly three decades three hundred twenty nine points were scored as the chicago bulls beat the. some of the.

high level talks between the u.s. and taliban have resume didn't go u.s. envoys ziad says an earlier round ended with unprecedented progress to end the seventeen year war with taliban is refusing to directly in a go share with the afghan government it wants foreign forces to withdraw its delegation is led by the co-founder of the group the broader speak now the dosage of bar here in doha where the talks are taking place dorset so have they got around the obstacle of well to do with foreign troops in afghanistan . well sammy that is what they're trying to figure out as we speak in the hotel right behind me here one of the main points that they're trying to figure out between both sides is the fate of fourteen thousand u.s. troops that are currently in afghanistan now the taliban are adamant they want the troops to leave as well as all other foreign troops to leave their country but the

u.s. wants the withdrawal to happen much slower than the taliban actually at the moment the u.s. has a plan to see their troops withdraw within three to five years but the taliban say they want that to happen much quicker of course the taliban want the u.s. to leave but the americans also want to stay behind in a counterterrorism. security apparatus in afghanistan they don't want to completely abandon afghanistan after being there all these years so all these issues are being worked on as we speak spokesman for this however in here has said that progress is being made being made but they're working on the fine details of an agreement do also take us through the level of contacts with the afghan government to what extent are they involved in on board with this. well as far as we understand that they are not involved on any level according to the taliban spokesman here

they don't recognize the government of ashraf ghani in kabul as legitimate so they are not having any discussions with them at the moment but that is of course something the americans want to see happen eventually and that is one of the main points for the americans here they want the taliban to first declare a cease fire with the current government in kabul and then bring the two sides to the table so they can have a discussion about what the future of over thirty five million people will look like in their country or a dose of thanks for the. but in afghanistan the violence continues the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers you sure about base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops the afghan defense ministry says twenty attackers including eight suicide bombers were killed sharla ballasts has more from

kabul this is tech began at two o'clock on friday morning and lasted some sixteen hours if mission was incredibly difficult to get out of home and about what exactly was going on afghan military sources were saying is we are taking casualties that we can't tell you how many u.s. sources say.