brought against a police officer they ultimately the department of justice ruled there was not today we're not going to press any federal charges and then it went to this local. new york police department internal trial or an internal investigation and that didn't get under way to late last year they ultimately found that the chokehold was inappropriate procedure didn't follow procedures and that they officer should be fired and that's what the commissioner alternately ruled as well and that's why he will be fired but boy it took a long time to get to this point and the commissioner said they have to fix the system they need to address these things much faster than simply it dragging on for 5 years i will say the family of eric gardner just spoke a few minutes ago they said that they are pleased with the decision but they will continue to fight they say for what they claim and what they continue to see as the unjust killing of their father eric gardner who was a father of 6 children. with that update from new york thank you here's

what we've got coming up we're going to meet the victims a powerful pellet guns used by security forces in. kashmir. be on this rock is the entrance to a german who. nearly half a century. now 117 of the survivors are suing the state sponsor. and in sport the footballer who. will be here with all the details. of course has been told former president omar al bashir accepted $90000000.00 from the government of saudi arabia but she was on trial on corruption charges accused of possessing foreign currency and accepting bribes remember the military removed

from power in april after months of anti-government protests and he is also wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity for more from him orgon. inside the courthouse behind this wall is where the country's former president and longtime leader former president bashir had his 1st hearing with judges now his defense attorney are saying that the charges brought against him which includes corruption and bribery are not because he received the money that was found in his house after he was ousted as a person and not as the president people who were inside the courthouse have described him as being very composed very confident and like his family members who attended the session who people say were very emotional saying that he should not be tried now his defense team say that this proves the fact that there is a trial against a former president proves that the judicial is independent but they're sure that he will come out innocent. presenting the head of the country to troll proves that

there is rule of law in the country and that no one is above the law this message is not just for the ousted government but to the incoming government the case will resume next week we can't tell you what the outcome will be but we can say that we are assured that the case is going in the favor of the defendant now the charges that we will not hear against the former president are charges that are being brought against him by the international criminal court which include charges of work crimes crimes against humanity and genocide the transitional council that ousted him said that they will wait until a transitional government is formed and an independent and impartial judiciary is set up and that body will be the one to determine whether the former president should be tried for these crimes and if he is whether he's guilty or innocent. now pakistan says indian security forces are fired across the line of control in the kashmir region several civilians are reported being killed on the pakistan administered side and both countries are blaming each other for the violence. the

number of civilians of being killed in the latest escalation we've been hearing from the pakistani military confirming that describe for the shelling started around 13 g.m.c. on just yesterday on sunday and there have been saying that it is going to be a an ongoing situation where they see that people have been caught up in this violence they said not soldiers but civilian population has come under attack and they called us and discriminative indiscriminate firing that has continued and this is a fight since august the 5th when indian government decided that it was going to change the status of indian administered kashmir and pakistan's interest to schmear has been an unrest there's been a lot of tension on the border we've been visiting these villages and people have been telling us that is they're living under constant fear during the day and at night their children cannot go to school and they're just waiting for when the next

bomb is going to drop as these both sides continue to blame each other it is the people in their thousands in small villages who are stuck here. now india's prime minister narendra modi has talked on the phone with donald trump 2 weeks after new delhi revoked that autonomy from indian and minister of kashmir the us president and modi are said to have discussed increasing trade and preventing what they call cross border terrorism and you know it's also eased some restrictions in minister kashmir but there are some big concerns about human rights abuses number of civilians say they've been targeted by indian forces during the lockdown as a respect to people who suffered life changing injuries as their stories. mohammad saw they may never regain his vision in one of his eyes he says he was hit by pellets fired by an indian soldier right after he stepped out of his local mosque because. everything was normal there were no protests security forces chased us

away and fired pellets at us one more person older than me was also injured he was discharged from hospital yesterday. mom of the qs a security forces an indian administered kashmir of targeting kashmiris he shows us his back with scars of what he says a pellet injuries. at this month thousands here defied restrictions imposed by the authorities and protested against the indian government's decision to revoke autonomy. this 17 year old was one of them. we had no intentions to bury stoned but the police attacked and several boys were injured including me i was hit on the right side of my body by barely. even though indian administered kashmir has been under lockdown for nearly 2 weeks. people have come out in protest in some cases the government has responded with force even admitting that

a few people have been injured in the recent crisis. they shot the nigger is a member of the biggest hindu group in india that supports the governing party he says the government has used minimal force during the last 2 weeks if you have an option to fire real bullets and if you have to fire guns then obviously we'll choose the letter and the supreme court of india was very clear that in order to control law and order situation you must use minimum force in the force instance and then use the extreme forces analyst disagrees the question is that does use of guns blending of children blaming the men is it a justifiable self-defense by the armed forces against in 2016 the new government said it would replace pellet guns with a less lethal weapon or on the ground any good on the surface means security forces are still using them against those protesting over new delhi's decision to revoke

autonomy. the fear is that if the protests continue in the coming days or months so will the pellet injuries on al-jazeera new delhi. let's expand on this a little bit here according to official data from the state government 13 people died in 2016 and 4 in 2017 as a result of these pellet injuries in january of 2018 the jumma in kashmir chief minister told the state legislative assembly that around 6200 people had been injured by pellet guns same period july 26th through to february 27th seen at least 85 percent of the people blinded by pellet guns also have psychiatric problems that is according to a study by the government medical college in srinagar. now with us from paris is julie who's the program officer for west and south asia at the international federation for human rights julia thank you for your time as i watch that report

and thought about the injuries that are a result of this this name pellet guns it's almost a bit of a misnomer isn't it it makes it sound like just being hit by pellets but this is really dangerous stuff yes of course it's an extremely dangerous weapon and the government of india justifies this saying that it's for crowd control purposes but really it's something that has resulted in thousands of victims with permanent injuries like you were mentioning in in the report people have been blinded for this and there's been deaths as well it's it's completely indiscriminate so the way that it shoots you have hundreds of pellets that that can hit anyone in the crowd so it's really a very dangerous weapon but it's justified by the government or the army whoever uses it because they're saying it's just because it's technically non-lethal.

yes it's technically non-lethal but of course it has this potentially lethal consequences. looking at the report which your group put out and this actually goes out to goes back to march of 2019 and you've talked about human rights issue in indian administered kashmir maybe you can just give us a brief overview because. you've got a long list it seems of of human rights concerns. yes of course and i think it's important to remember about that although you know the past 2 weeks have seen. you know some some very serious human rights violations in indian administered kashmir this is really just an example of decades of human rights violations in the states you know it's that we've been able to

document with our partners in kashmir examples of extrajudicial killings torture in forces appearance's arbitrary detention under the. kashmir public safety act restrictions on civil society harassment of human rights defenders so you know this is this is really just an example of what's been going on for decades just this year alone there's been dozens of internet blockades in kashmir so of course the past 2 weeks is probably one of the longest such blockades and of course we i think we're we're far from from being able to know exactly what's happening there because of the lack of information but the people the millions of people who live in kashmir have been subjected to these to these violations for a very long time so groups like yours other and human rights groups i'm guessing you don't get any access you just get denied denied entry.

exactly so there's no access to the region for international human rights organizations for the un the un has repeatedly asked for access over the past several years and is continually being denied. and even foreign journalist have a really hard time getting in they need special permission to access in kashmir often that permission is denied so combined with then a repression of civil society with then kashmir you really have you know a sort of modern day iron curtain it's really hard to get information and it's really hard to get information out and of course you know these past 2 weeks is is kind of extreme version of this should be able to solo from the international federation for human rights thank you very much for your time do appreciate it now

in addition to this more knowledge the term for pakistan's powerful army chief has been extended for 3 years as the tension intensifies with india over kashmir a prominent opposition leader the foreign minister and the president of pakistan administered kashmir all expressed their views in a talk to al-jazeera special with some of inch of it. the attack on press freedoms in occupied kashmir i wish i was speaking from a moral ground moral high ground and i would be speaking from our high ground of my own government was not restricting some human rights and media freedoms in pakistan but having said that we can't equate our concerns about the curtailment of democracy in pakistan with a military occupation by an extremist government by the man seen as the butcher of could run my biggest fear is. the. genocide that can take place on the inside of it we have no evidence if you.

open up open up you hear did anybody stop you you went to the elysee you make people you into in people will be allow you there because why don't you attempt and try after having been here. and make a request to the indian side and let them allow you to go to srinagar to meet the dealership over there will be allow you i doubt it so we're not going to fair we have nothing to hide is that your concern that these 2 nuclear armed neighbors could go to war because you would be essentially on the front lines if that happens that anything can happen there can be miscalculations but before miscalculations india has taken escalate 3 steps in february this year indian prime minister had threatened pakistan with the use of nuclear weapons and at that time we had said

that he doesn't know what he's talking about by if he takes that step then that would mean a nuclear armageddon. and a nuclear winter not just for south asia but for the entire world. all 3 of those interviews from pakistan in that special edition of talk to our 0 with osama bin shivered at these times on tuesday and wednesday on al-jazeera the french president emanuel micron's been holding talks with russia's president vladimir putin this is ahead of the g. 7 summit in butte it's for more on this we're off to our london news into his felicity. i kemal yes the 2 leaders have been discussing the world's major crises from iran to syria to ukraine 13 told my call that recent talks with the new craney and president have given him grounds for cautious optimism in eastern ukraine or than 13000 people have died since fighting broke out there in 2014 after

russia's annexation of crimea is hoping to agree a time frame for the next round of talks on the complex and attach a bottle has more now from for a council in southern france. the french president has made it very clear that he invited. into his summer residence here and break our saw in order to try and persuade putin to take steps to end fighting in ukraine now the french president says that for him he feels there is a wealth a window of opportunity with the recent election of the new ukrainian president vladimir. made it clear that he wants the fighting in eastern ukraine to end he made it one of his presidential campaign promises and emanuel back or when imagine lensky in june in paris said that he was very hopeful that the peace process that was started back in 2015 could be reignited what we heard also from the russian president on this very issue he said he was open he said that there is a certain promise in the 2 will discuss that later then also discuss of course

other international issues they've made it very clear that they wanted to talk about iran present hoping that russia will use its influence on tehran to try and deescalate tensions that have been of course rising in the region ever since the u.s. pulled out of the 2015 iran deal last year they also said that their talk about syria with france trying to urge and put pressure on russia to end the fighting in the region or also raising the issue of human rights. or russia is to investigate alleged foreign interference in its upcoming local elections in moscow it's concerned that quote foreign meddling has been encouraging on authorised rallies so fast the reports from moscow. protests on the streets of moscow 6 weeks in a row brought an updraft end to the russian parliament summer recess bees held an emergency session and set up an investigative commission. i'm

sure that we must investigate financing from abroad that leads to interference in russia's internal politics we must look at the activities of some of diplomats who are based on russian territory maybe i'm getting ahead of myself but i promise you we will have interesting findings. of the protests started in july after several opposition candidates were barred from running in local elections in moscow election officials said signatures they needed to collect were false normally these local elections don't attract a lot of attention but banning the opposition from taking part motivated tens of thousands to protest police have arrested thousands of protesters and some say they were beaten and now face serious criminal charges this has led many more to take part 2 observers that may sound of too familiar blaming foreigners for anti-government protests is not only seen as a way to distract russian public opinion from the real reasons behind

a protest it's also patrice these protesters negatively as being used by foreigners and this could be used to convince people not to join. on his visit to france on monday president vladimir putin said protestors have a right to let their voice heard but the authorities will do everything to prevent violence. no i am a guest here and it is not a good place to say that but i have to since you asked so we all know about the events related to the so-called yellow vests in which about 11 people were killed and 2005. 100 people including 2000 policeman were injured we don't want those to happen in russian capital. while russian politicians see the american accusations of russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections will falls the earth are real it's basically the russian version of the moon. but we don't have a person like bill or of course the hope or result we've got to compared to what he has achieved because he achieved 0 and will probably find something the

parliamentary commission says it will summon journalists and diplomats it suspects of interference so far the us embassy has been blamed for meddling as you have used to it and the german channel. misstep fast and al-jazeera. britain's opposition leader has called for a general election to block and no deal breaks its jeremy corbyn says he will do everything possible to end what he called the crisis he wants parliament required early from its summer break and is urging other parties to back a motion of no confidence in the government but prime minister boris johnson has so far refused to recall parliament saying britain is ready to leave the e.u. on october the 31st with or without a deal. and a migrant rescue vessel stranded off the italian island of lampedusa has refused an opportunity to sail to spain it says $107.00 refugees and migrants on board are too distressed to make another voyage the spanish rescue vessel has been at sea since

picking up the migrants off the coast of libya 18 days ago the charity says those on board are physically mentally and morally exhausted with many at breaking point it's called on the italian coast guard to transport the migrants to lyons italy's interior minister vajpayee salvini has so far only allowed minors and those with medical emergency into port. or at the from here in europe let's go back to die hard on the joint committee thank you for this they will see felicity in the team at 1900 hours g.m.t. still ahead on this news out of afghanistan marks 100 years since independence but celebrations are more subdued after a wedding bombing. oh my relatives my name is mark charles he's a man of the people the native american who wants to be the next u.s. president. and sport floyd mayweather beats down the room as he's about to find an old nemesis in the middle east sonisphere

a little. dry out of course halts across much of the middle baghdad we've seen some very high temperatures here over the last several days and it will stay warm over the next few days so people are really trying to stay as cool as they can look at this in the tigris river not a bad way to spend your day if you can if not that big of a cold drink or even head to a water park where people are enjoying having water cooler water away at temps all over the map from here to say the temperatures are actually said to increase over the next few days elsewhere across the region it is dry and hot 44 degrees in a city there's no sign really of any rain we could say i want to into northern sections of turkey yet again so this could lead to very localized flooding of course very dry ground generally with these rains that are quite heavy at times and

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this is the news all from al-jazeera and these are our top stories turkey has condemned a syrian air strike that narrowly missed its convoy in the last rebel held province in the north damascus says the convoy was headed towards. to protect rebels which ankara denies regime forces claim to have taken control of a checkpoint as well giving them access to the strategic. and york city police officer whose deadly. handling of an armed man led to the black wires matter movement has been fired they're gonna was heard saying i can't breathe as he died in a chokehold by officer daniel. and a court in sudan has been told former president omar bashir accepted $19000000.00 from the government of saudi arabia bashir is on trial on corruption charges the military to post him in april after months of anti-government protests. iran is warning the united states not to seize an oil tanker in open seas after it set sail

from gibraltar of the night the vessel was held for 6 weeks on suspicion it was taking crude oil to syria which would violate e.u. sanctions it was called the grace one it's now been renamed in left under that name adrian daria one but it's still unclear where the tanker is actually going this report from andrew symonds. anchor lifted and underwear lost in the darkness heading east into the mediterranean. a few hours before the departure supplies have been loaded on the adrian daria warm in the choppy waters a specialist engineer had been winched up along with at least 5 new crew members the engineer was brought on board to attend to a technical issue planning to return to shore later nightfall on the swell of the sea is getting worse yet the technician has yet to return to the supertanker the systems of automatic identification systems are now showing the adrian down real

war they to the technician who finished his work and returned to shore but who will end up with $140000000.00 worth of crude oil this is obviously going to be one of those tracks vessels over the next few days and therefore we have a very clear idea of where it goes and we have a very clear idea of any vessels that come alongside in order to try and ship the cargo. last thursday gibraltar's supremes court lifted the detention order on the ship after assurances from iran that it would not deliver its cargo of crude oil to syria complying with the european union sanctions on that country an attempt by the united states to reimpose the detention under its own sanctions was dismissed by the court on sunday as the reflagged rename ship prepared to leave gibraltar announced it could follow up on a subsequent u.s. district court warrant for the detention of the ship and the 4 fates of her cargo

it was 6 weeks ago the supertanker was captured off the coast of this tiny british territory at the tip of the iberian peninsula it's overlooking the african coastline and it's the gateway to the mediterranean a british frigate docking here but destined for the strait of hormuz to take over escort duties serves as a reminder of the tension there it has escalated with the ongoing detention of a british flag tanker in paris this is the closing of one chapter of a crisis and the start of a new on that's now charting a course andrew symonds al-jazeera off the coast of gibraltar. afghanistan has postponed independence day celebrations after a bomb attack at a wedding reception killed $63.00 people eisel claimed responsibility for it at a small ceremony president ashraf ghani said his government is committed to destroying the group most of the victims were from afghanistan's shia minority and

support from charlotte ballasts. it's a day for celebration 100 years ago afghanistan gained its independence from britain in kabul remind us if we where. we are very happy that we became independent on this day 100 years ago and that's why we are celebrating it. right i'm celebrating independence day to day i'm happy i like the flag. children also celebrate with cricket calling it the great game it's a hangover from british colonise ation in the region yet these children are unaware of another great game played when the modern history began. in the 19th century afghanistan was caught between russia pushing south and the british expanded waste from india afghans for to retain the sovereignty but were pitted li occupied by the british to the treaty was signed in 1919 decades later during the cold war

afghanistan was again stuck between 2 world powers russia and the united states in 1959 eisenhower became the 1st u.s. president to visit the country both nations called it afghanistan influence leading to rapid botanizing in a more liberal afghanistan in the fifty's and sixty's. all came to afghanistan on christmas eve 1979 and never left the soviet union invaded and took kabul within 3 days. islamic group of fighters known as the mucha who dean fought back with u.s. support 1000000 people died in the fighting until the soviets withdrew a decade later a civil war intel a ban rule follows national landmarks and infrastructure were destroyed by cavil's darla man palace. and this is how it looks today president gandhi had

planned to inaugurate the building for independence day sign of how far the nation had come but again conflict intervened to spurning the event after and i saw suicide bombing killed dozens of people just a few kilometers from here many afghans are resisting celebration for another reason they feel this sovereignty is still compromised. the young. son believed it up to understand his losses and this sense is that by the soviet union and by the united states of america or through the tunnel the u.s. invaded in 2118 years later having spent $800000000000.00 and with $13000.00 troops in country it's negotiating its withdrawal with the taliban so far the afghan government isn't involved but those talks could mark the start of a new afghanistan their fans hope they can shake their identity without the threat of war or interference. kabul turkey's government has dismissed

pro kurdish party mayors of 3 cities in its southeast it accuses them of involvement in what it calls terrorism related crimes more from istanbul with simple so you. turkey's interior ministry stated in a press release that those 3 mayors who have been removed from their mayor or old post this morning are accused of a rise crimes including being members of the out both kurdistan workers party the pic aka spreading the p.k. k. agenda and exporting to misspell team money and resources in order to finance and support the agenda the p.k. k. is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but also by the united states and the e.u. also turkey's interior ministry detained 418 people doing in a parisian held in 29 provinces of turkey this morning and those people are accused of being linked to the kurdistan workers party the minister says that those

people has links to the out both kurdistan workers party and they have identified that those people have been supporting the k. and after after the removal of the mayors from their paws the city governors have been appointed as trustees as the acting mayors according to turkey's constitution and a regulation for election the interior ministry has a right to has the authority to remove local authority members from their pause for a temporary period of time if they have ongoing persecution process or legal proceedings until a final decision is place several people hoping to be the next u.s. president will be in iowa in the next few days at a forum focusing on native american issues most of them are democrats but one of the speakers mark charles is running as an independent fisher notified.