hi. ron on al jazeera new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. pakistan warns that tensions in the disputed region of kashmir could escalate into a full blown war. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program the u.s. says tough new sanctions will show called financing for venezuela's president but caracas accuses washington of economic terrorism from a trade war to a possible currency war as tensions rise between the world's 2 largest economies

and the trailblazing iconic or thor and nobel laureate toni morrison dies aged 88 barack obama pays tribute to her as a u.s. national treasure. welcome to the program the crisis in kashmir could explode into an all out war that's the warning by pakistan's prime minister who has condemned india for stripping the region of its statehood and revoking special rights granted to its citizens kashmir is split between india and pakistan over though both sides claim the entire territory is their own streets are empty and shops are shot on both sides of the cease fire line that divides the region as tensions rise between the nuclear rivals will some of binge of eid begins our coverage from in pakistani administered kashmir. our fight will continue that's the

message from these protestors and was after about in pakistan administered kashmir if you 100 gathered to voice their anger against the indian government's decision to abolish its special status of kashmir the himalayan region disputed the pakistan . made your notice in. my appeal to the united nations to resolve this issue immediately otherwise we will go there to win freedom for our brothers. my opinion is to all muslims that if you have come out of your homes and stand the tasks members of pakistan's parliament in islamabad voiced their anger at india's decision to revoke autonomy and privileges for the contested muslim majority region prime minister announced on predicted that india will crack down even harder on the kashmiri people he fears ethnic cleansing and call the ruling b.g.p. steps in line with the racist ideology you talked a little only kiryat plantar kidney yank election the manifesto this is not

a decision the b j p have taken out of the blue it was part of their election manifesto all along it is in fact ingrained in their ideology to put hindus above all other religions and seeks to establish a state that represses all other religious groups. it was a heated parliamentary session where the leader of the opposition says that pakistan has 2 choices now either to hide or take decisive action but people on both sides of the line of control of heard fiery speeches before the feeling here is their bread and inside he not knowing what is happening beyond these mountains in the indian administered side of the schmear remains cut off from the outside world pakistan's military leaders say they will go to any extent to fulfill their obligation to the kashmiri people bikes money army spokesman tweeted pakistan never recognize the indian efforts to be legalised to talk oppression of jammu and kashmir through article 370 or 35 a decades ago. pakistan and india have fought multiple wars over the

territorial dispute there are fears that this latest from india could provoke another some of the god out of their. pockets on administered kashmir. meanwhile in india the parliament has agreed to divide the indian administered kashmir into 2 parts with direct from central government it's still unclear how kashmiris are reacting to the violence the muslim majority region is under a media and communications blackout but many kashmiri hindus who were forced out during unrest nearly 3 decades ago hope the changes will lead them return to their ancestral homes has more now from new delhi. for the 1st time in decades here allow the arena feeling optimistic because schmear hindu fled with his family from indeed administered kashmir in 1990 because of religious violence he's pleased with the indian government's decision to revoke the region's autonomy under article 370 but has its concerns if we are we are supposed to go back

to the what shall we live what is. what shall we. and all who will be served it who will look after us. and who is going to be a god of. india's home minister let tuesday's charge for change in the lower house of parliament where the bill passed easily thanks to the government's majority and support from the opposition members but many members of parliament say support for india in the kashmir valley has dried up following the government's revoking of the region's autonomy and splitting it into 2 federal territories even those who politically supported the indian government in the region are now lashing out this is not india that i believe. there is a democratic india take it on india. whatever your religion the killer your region. the students studying in your new delhi are worried they've been scrambling

to find a way to contact their families and friends in indeed administered kashmir without much success my main guns on that my parents even ok like they haven't i don't know if they've been alive. or not knowing what they're going to do. so i know one of the problems but this is the highest this is the worst kind of situation that is happening now. as many worry about their families in kashmir being cut off others are dreaming of a new beginning their fares jamil al jazeera new delhi well earlier i spoke to pakistan's ambassador to the un mali has no the she says the international community must uphold the un security council resolutions on general and kashmir. it's pretty obvious that this illegal and exception of the state of jammu and kashmir by the indian government not only flouts international law but it is an

egregious violation of successive security council resolutions adopted right here at the united nations so we reject this move we believe that this illegal act will not and cannot change the facts on the ground the fact that right now as i speak there is internet suspension in the state of jammu and kashmir in the occupied state of jammu and kashmir people have been locked up additional forces have been moved in this is an armed camp and this is an occupation that will only feel this desperate effort by the indian government is bound to fail because it will never be accepted by the people of jammu and kashmir what is pakistan itself prepared to do or how best to stand itself i think the handle the situation well for pakistan we are keeping open all our political and diplomatic options on my prime

minister him around her and when he spoke to parliament made it very clear that he made every effort to engage the indian government to find a peaceful settlement of the outstanding dispute of jammu and kashmir but the indian government did not respond and instead it took this illegal act so we are assessing the situation we will stand by the people of jammu and kashmir we are committed to continuing our diplomatic and political support for them the kashmiris are not alone and we and i here at the un i'm going to be the voice of the kashmiris i mean you mentioned the diplomatic avenues that have been explored but we've also heard from pakistan's prime minister saying that the crisis could actually explode into an all out war which of course is a terrifying prospect considering the both in pakistan are nuclear powers what that the prime minister mean by that. i think what the prime minister was referring to

is the fact that there is an escalation that has taken place in recent days leading up to this act this illegal act by the indian government and that the escalatory spiral can get out of control so i think what the prime minister is saying very clearly is that we do not want an escalation the escalation is coming from the indian side and it is up to the international community to ask india to halt these address of moves and to stop these measures that are leading to such a grave situation in our region this is a fraud situation and it is not in pakistan's interest to continue to see this kind of escalation but of course we will remain vigilant we will protect our borders and we will stand by the people of jammu and kashmir but so i guess what you're saying is that pakistan is considering or keeping the option open for a unilateral unilateral military action against india over this no i never said

that and i never implied that in fact i started by saying that all political and diplomatic options are on the table all i'm saying is that the international community should ask india urgent via compared to stop its collation both inside the state of occupied jungle in kashmir and on the line of control with pakistan it is india that is used cluster ammunition not my country it is india that is escalated the situation not pakistan we do not wish to see any conflict in our region. the u.s. says tough new sanctions will choke off financing for venezuela's president washington has frozen venezuelan government assets blocking all u.s. companies and individuals from doing business with president nicolas maduro is that illustration and that supporters u.s.

national security advisor john bolton has warned the sanctions will be imposed on anyone who supports caucus president trump has taken a very strong move here imposing these sweeping sanctions putting a full block a full freeze on all assets of all parts of the government of venezuela in the u.s. and also imposing sanctions are setting up the. situation to impose sanctions on any person or business that goes significant business with the government of venezuela so this goes well beyond anything we've done before and it really is a very strong move by the president. today some more has more on that story from. another executive order by donald trump imposing more sanctions in venezuela and this generates lots of uncertainty in a country that already struggling with an economic crisis about exactly what's coming next apparently there is a conference for democracy in venezuela compulsive about 60 countries that are

discussing venezuela future presidents there are countries like argentina brazil and the united states countries like russia for example are saying they won't attend because that meeting is being controlled by the united states and right berries where john bolton compared to venezuela with other rogue states he referred to iran north korea among others and right there he also it specify the bit about which functions are all about banning american companies with dealing with venezuela seizing venezuela and aphids a warning countries like russia and china of doing business with venezuela among other things while all of this is happening up officially the one where you go to hear said that this is not going to be sort of. medicines food and clothes will be allowed into the country by basically that this type of measures are necessary in order to promote change which is currently what the opposition is looking to in

this country most of the analysts we have spoken to say that sanction things generally do not work they hurt the population they hurt the economy and the baby end of the government remains in place because poverty in the country makes the population more dependent on the governments that are in place and those are the example that they're telling us like north korea iran and cuba. u.s. president double trouble shrugged off fears of a protracted trade war with china he says investment is flooding into america and that the economy is strong trumps comments came a day after the u.s. treasury accused china of currency manipulation our white house correspondent kimberly healthcare reports. a strong economic position that's the claim the trump white house made amid an intensifying trade war turned currency dispute between the united states and china america's job for business america is open for business it's been a week of back and forth between the world's 2 largest economies and monday the

u.s. treasury accused china of currency manipulation following a sharp drop in the u.n. against the american dollar filling a campaign promise made by u.s. president donald trump. the drop comes following more u.s. tariffs on chinese goods last week 10 percent on 300000000000 products effect of september 1st china retaliated announcing its state run companies would stop buying u.s. agricultural products inflicting further strain on u.s. farmers but on twitter president trub argues the u.s. is benefiting from the economic tit for tat massive amounts of money from china and other parts of the world is pouring into the united states companies are also coming to the u.s. in big numbers this is a transformative president. who is going in many places where prior presidents and both parties have fear to tread and i think part of that has to be trade. but the

trade war has hurt american farmers already the u.s. government has put in place to aid packages to compensate for the billions in lost sales for products like soybeans and pork to china and we hope to see fewer acts like this which serves no one's interests we also hope the us sticks to the facts and solves the u.s. china economic and trade issue more rationally and practically rather than move further along a wrong path that the white house says it's still working with china to negotiate what it calls the right deal it expects more talks with beijing. in september kimberly healthy at al-jazeera the white house still ahead this half hour sri lanka's prime minister says that tensions between himself and the country's president were a factor that led to the easter sunday bombings. and the battles break out across well are we as protesters accuse the electoral commission over the rigging aprils

presidential election. hello there mostly fine and dry across much of australia high pressure still the dominant weather feature there but across the southeast we are still seeing this line of cloud it is one system off to another so bringing rain to into adelaide on wednesday should be dry in melbourne but i'm afraid that rain is heading in your general direction will probably reach you about thursday 12 degrees then non-self again with a chance of some showers and then perth 17 degrees and we've got quite a bit hotter on his coastal areas and again that could just bring with it one or 2 then across tools new zealand again to go to mix of. clouds here on the satellite it's not a bad day in o'loghlin and on wednesday we've got more cloud certainly down across

the south and into christchurch fish to stay dry and as we head off into thursday we have got some rain funeral come with a high 15 but again a fine day and christ church 13 celsius is the warmest you will see then we head up towards japan and the korean peninsula now we've been watching this tropical storm francisco by wednesday really pushing on through the korean peninsula it will continue to push out into the sea of japan as we head through thursday to sunday clearing across much of japan 34 celsius in tokyo 35 in a saka and actually clear is still across most southern sections of korean peninsula with 33 is the high. captaining a leading youth team at 16 years old takes determination. to that staying on top of your game at school. the whole family together and shares the sacrifices necessary for a son to have a shot at becoming

a professional footballer. on a. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera pakistan's prime minister has warned that the crisis in kashmir could explode into a regional war indeed administered kashmir has been under lockdown since india's government stripped the region of its own on the status and revoked special rights granted to its citizens the u.s. says new sanctions against venezuela will cut off financing for president nicolas

maduro washington has frozen all venezuelan government assets blocking u.s. companies and individuals from doing business with some of those administration and us president donald trump has dismissed concerns over a long trade war with china saying the american economy is booming. a texas police chief has apologized after a photo of a black man so rest went viral 2 white male officers mounted on horseback were seen leaving a handcuffed suspect by of rope photos of donald neely's weekend the rest have been widely circulated on social media where she joins us live now from washington so shocking images what was the reaction both on social media and of course more generally to this picture. well anger and discuss all of us are really surprised but that question is always raised would a white person be treated like this by galveston police offices won't galveston

police officer says look there was this man he was arrested for criminal trespass on saturday he was known to them as someone with a mental illness he's bipolar he's homeless in fact his family has been looking for for some time to try and bring him back home but even so they decided this was the best course of action for detaining him they said there wasn't a vehicle available so they haven't coughed him that attached a rope to the handcuffs and led them for 2 blocks to a staging area they say this is perfectly normal practice in particularly dangerous moments for example civil disobedience or something like this because this wasn't civil disobedience so now we have the statement from the police chief i bust apologize to mr neely for this unnecessary embarrassment although this is a training technique and best practice in some scenario is i believe our officers showed poor judgment in this instance and could have waited for a transfer or unit at the location of arrest my officers did not have any malicious intent at the time of the arrest but we have immediately changed the policy to

prevent the use of this technique and will review all mounted training and procedures for more appropriate methods no disciplinary action will be taken against office as far as we can tell but this picture coming at a time when there is that heightened debate about the casualness of white supremacy how it imbues us society the dehumanization of african-americans out contributes to hate crimes and how all of these officers seem to think it would be to treat this man like this that contributes to that debate and also contributes to the debate we've long had about how the police deal with african-americans in the u.s. there was just another study that came out on monday by the national academy of sciences which said if you're black or black man you're 2 and a half times more likely to be killed than that a white man by the police or one of the 1000 and how the police treat the mentally ill there are figures for that 16 times you're 16 times more likely to be killed if you are mentally ill in the u.s. in a police encounter than if you were not so there's a great deal to unpack in that picture sampras had seen with the latest from washington thank you. police in hong kong have once again 4 with

pro-democracy protesters. officers charged towards demonstrators who had surrounded a police station in the city's shanshu whole district and its strongest warning yet china has told the protesters not to play with fire and mistake its restraint for weakness beijing has vowed to bring justice to those responsible for the recent fight us. troops have been deployed to restore calm in malawi's capital the long where after battles broke out between protesters and police there have been continuous demonstrations since president. won a 2nd term in april protesters say that the vote was rigged and they want the head of the electoral commission to step down how do with us of reports. opposition supporters say mase presidential election was rigged to favor peter who

narrowly won reelection of opposition leader last of mr quinn are many people joined in the demonstrations across the country they say the one they hear of the electoral commission gone. to journalism must resign machinist on election. demonstrations. to stop. people from demonstrating. really. rights of the people. opposition parties insist there were lots of irregularities and at least many votes were altered using typewriter correction fluid election officials deny this. in some areas the army blocked roads to government buildings. president has accused the opposition are trying to sabotage the economy and spread chaos he's ruling d.p.p. party tonight and occasions of vote rigging and fraud but these people on the

street. the way we. tally. the reality is that is what has prompted me to join the martin. the constitutional court says the election dispute will be heard on 8 opposition supporters to stay on the street. outside. true i can prime minister running has admitted that serious shortcomings led to the easter sunday bombings which left more than 250 people dead appearing before the parliamentary select committee investigating the attacks he also accepted that his fall out with the president had been a factor in the reports for months after the devastating bombings is still looking for. but there is little help from the prime minister he said his security personnel had no knowledge of any warning.

information missing here is the most senior member of the government to appear before the parliament select committee investigating the easter bombings coordinated suicide bombers struck 3 churches and 35 star hotels on easter sunday killing more than 250 people and leaving hundreds more injured a local extremist group supporting isis was blamed investigators uncovered plans to carry out further attacks. after weeks of testimony from law enforcement defense and political representatives one thing has become clear a catalogue of serious intelligence failings combined with rivalry between agencies resulted in one of the country's worst terrorist attacks but more disturbing was the fallout between the country's president and prime minister the pair have been at loggerheads since the president tried to get rid of the premier in october 2018 and failed relationships have not been scored before and this is why

i thought that the strategy would be mitigated by parliamentary committee prison my policy recently has repeatedly denied receiving intelligence warnings of the impending attacks he has slammed the select committee sessions as an attempt to blame him and abuse and violence broke out a few days after the attack many observers saw the violence as the work of organized groups today a reminder that things are still volatile a catholic statue in ca to a scene of one of the april 21st bombings was stoned tensions flared muslim shops were closed and the head of the catholic church appealed for calm heavy security presence was needed to restore normalcy the incident a stark reminder that the scars of the easter bombings will take time to heal been a finance al-jazeera colombo. ireland's prime minister leo varadkar says that

britain will be a negotiation is with the e.u. for years with or without a deal speaking in belfast varadkar pointed out that in the event of a no deal the issues contained within the current withdrawal agreement so citizens arrives the financial settlement and the solution to the irish border well those issues would still need to be resolved post rex in the u.k. is expected to leave the e.u. want to talk for 31st but the british parliament is dead locked over the country's future relationship with the law. toni morrison the iconic writer who won the nobel literature prize for her work exploring black identity in america has died she was the 1st black woman to receive the award in 1903 roslyn jordan looks back at her life and her work. she was the 1st african-american to win literatures ultimate prize the nobel in 1903

breaking barriers along the way when i think there can a call for writer. has got to be the nobel prize but what toni morrison really did was create space to discuss racism sexual abuse injustice and love through the experiences of african-americans she became a global cultural icon and an inspiration to every would be writer the reason she turned to writing rather than reading and editing is that she saw a literary landscape that had a gap that wasn't telling a story that she wanted herself to read she shared with us lives that had not been previously shared morrison was the ultimate working single mom while raising 2 sons and working as a book editor and professor she published 11 novels 8 books of essays and a series of children's books she won the pulitzer prize in 1988 for beloved

a novel about a mother's decision to kill her child so that she would not be enslaved morrison was a bestselling author many times over but as she noted in a recent documentary her work was also feared this is the collection. nicely because of my insight and i thought. said that. as fast as morrison wrote the honors poured in including the presidential medal of freedom in 2012 circumstances may not have been ideal but the words that came out. were magical toni morrison's prose brings us that kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt. the song of solomon to beloved toni reaches us deeply using a tone that is lyrical precise distinct and inclusive she believes that

language arcs toward the place where meaning might lie toni morrison always insisted the black experience in america is as universal as every other experience and she used the well written well edited word to underscore that point toni morrison author mother icon dead at age 88. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera pakistan's prime minister has warned that the crisis in kashmir could explode into a regional war indeed administered kashmir has been under lockdown since india's government stripped the region of its statehood and revoked special rights granted to its citizens pakistan leader in fear is angry kashmiris will attack indian forces and that new delhi will blame pakistan and retaliate it was split between

india and pakistan but both nations claim it as their own. tuffy u.s. the u.s. says tough new sanctions will choke off financing for venezuela's president washington has frozen venezuelan government assets blocking all u.s. companies and individuals from doing business with president nicolas maduro is administration and its supporters us that u.s. national security adviser john bolton has warned the sanctions will be imposed on anyone who supports caracas president trump has taken a very strong move here imposing these sweeping sanctions putting a full bloc of full freeze on all assets of all parts of the government of venezuela in the u.s. and also imposing sanctions or setting the. situation to impose sanctions on any person or business that goes significant business with the government of venezuela so this goes well beyond anything we've done before and it

really is a very strong move by the president u.s. president donald trump as this miss concerns over a long trade war with china saying the american economy is strong on monday the u.s. accused china of being a currency manipulator after a lead there one significantly drop in value but beijing says washington's move could lead to chaos in financial markets the u.s. and china have been engaged in a trade this feud for several months troops have been deployed to restore calm in malawi's capital in a long way after battles broke out between protesters and police allow is had months of protests since president. won a 2nd term in april demonstrators say the vote was rigged and want the head of the electoral commission to resign those are the headlines my next. china has one of the world's highest are based in iraq but many take up the fought against battle for military style white not too bright on surgery what i want to

investigate is the chinese battle to get in shape on al-jazeera. going to say going to quit. stores to sell a stock in the stuff in the stores. and a high living lives here almost as this is. the most little 1000000 is a bit of food for disease and if you asked me if these friends did that as you. if you could learn a booklet and physically.