this is the time not to appease like in 1939 appeasement took place this is the dime to take action and number one action must be that india must live in human curfew a short while prime minister modi had conspicuously avoided any mention of kashmir which india insists is an internal matter but there was a veiled reference to what he has previously called pakistan backed terrorism in the region almost there. we belong to a country that has given the world not war but buddha's message of peace and that is the reason why our voice against terrorism to alert the world about this evil brings was seriousness and outrage. we believe that this is one of the biggest challenges not for any single country but for the entire world and humanity the lack of unanimity among us on the issue of terrorism against those very principles that are the basis of the creation of the u.n. and that is why for the sake of humanity i firmly believe that it's absolutely

imperative that the world unite against terrorism the. as both leaders spoke a block away from the u.n. building and t.-mo the protesters demanded the world take action 55 days of course feel no food no house no madison and they can't go out it's not clear we here to protest we want to know the but let the word know what's happening there and nobody's doing anything. and on the ground in srinagar kashmiris under strict security controls and with indian troops keeping watch made their voices heard was both prime ministers modi and khan met separately with president on trump on the sidelines of the un general assembly this week but nothing has come of trump's offer to mediate between them and hence no sign of any real progress in avoiding further escalation over kashmir you're now al-jazeera at the un in new

york. hundreds of people including local politicians have been arrested in indian administered kashmir ever since the area special status was revoked cases of stress and anxiety have gone up by the security restrictions are limiting people's access to mental health care. as the story. we're gonna zeer used to feel safe in his home but now he's finding it increasingly difficult to fight off dark thoughts . of quote all over all color who i'm scared to get not made that the incident i see soldiers approaching is if they're going to shoot me again i'm not able to sleep properly a keep on waking up a few times during the night a mind stops working sometimes and i get palpitations. last month as protest swept through srinagar an indian administered kashmir where han was shot by paramilitary officers he's been recovering ever since. around the globe you know

those were hans father nazir holds up his son's x. rays and says at least 350 shotgun pellets were removed from where hans body yet as worried as he is about where hans physical injuries his ears equally concerned about his son's mental health and she will walk you will he has become violent and shouts that he will jump from the window at night when he is asleep he shouts they are coming soldiers are coming then we convince him that no one is here everything is fine don't worry then i keep my lap and try to make him sleep. healthcare professionals have long known of the mental health problems of people in kashmir according to a survey conducted by doctors without borders in 201545 percent of the adult population in kashmir showed symptoms of significant mental distress a growing number of doctors are now warning that india's recent move revoking autonomy in indian administered kashmir and its security lockdown are limiting

people's access to mental health care services in the valley some predict this will also cause a rise in the number of people with mental health issues yes they meant to do so don't has an impact on this mental side you know the. patients as well as the anomaly in the summer because this is planned on has effected. already because of the life like we got more out of old houses as a lot of money just last year zia only began her career as a lawyer zia used to feel enthusiastic about all she hoped to accomplish in the future that's all changed. when i go out of my hole i see shops shut down there's no way on the roads no nothing nothing on the roads of fishmeal when i come back and can find a full was of my house of my home and i cannot think about my future now zia is despondent what next what next in my life how do i plan my life how do i start my

life my professional life. so while. i'm sitting at my place i get to sidle thoughts at the same time i'm suffering from anxiety with nowhere else to go she can only wait and worry in this room whose we used to provide comfort but now feel like we're closing in on her. sudden on doom is a columnist and with the wall street journal and a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute that's a washington based think tank and he joins us from there thank you very much for joining us. as we get there month kind of gave quite a powerful and unusual speech calling on the international community and the u.n. in particular to act on the situation in kashmir the lock down and to take some kind of moves to words pointing the finger at india do you think we'll see any

concrete action from this. well you know the way i see that speech i think you had 2 audiences in mind one was of course his domestic audience because this is a very emotive issue in pakistan and 2nd of course has been the international audience and over the last 2 months or so ever since august 5th when india revoked autonomy for mir imran khan has been speaking repeatedly trying to get the international community more involved in this issue so far he hasn't been successful for various reasons i think this sort of is in some ways the sort of don't know more of something that he's been trying for a long time i am not sure whether this speech is going to move the needle what kind of an impact would it have on india relations between the 2 countries are already at an all time low is this just going to make things worse you know the real i'm afraid this is really things are really quite bad i have not seen the bilateral

relationship as bad since 2008 which was the year of the mumbai attacks you know essentially you have both countries hardened have hardened their rhetoric even though the prime minister of india enter into a more the in his speech today did not mention pakistan or kashmir just on sunday he was in houston where he addressed a very big rally along with president trump and over there he spoke quite aggressively about me rant about pakistan so i see hardening rhetoric on both sides in the meantime i don't see much give in the indian position in kashmir so i think for now at least for the foreseeable future we're going to see a continued deterioration on can was also a very. emphasized very much the fact that kashmir is wedged between 2 nuclear powered nations and that the threats are far would affect not just those 2 countries but would have ever reverberations globally do you think that that made any kind of impact and do you think that would push the agenda

a bit further. well i think if things were to turn into and i hope this doesn't happen but if there were to be any kind of escalation of hostilities then perhaps there would be more scrutiny i think for now how many countries are privately telling india to ease some of its restrictions restore mobile phone connectivity restore internet in the valley and so on but for now at least this seemed to be going along with the indian and assurances that this is these are temporary measures for safety and security and that ultimately and that they will be revoked and some kind of normalcy will be restored so for now i think people are still coming in there some slack but i'm not sure how long that's going to last for them and don't make great to speak to you thank you very much thank you. there's plenty more still ahead this news hour including on the move

a british flag ship that are on the team 2 months ago has set sail. and heavy security just hours before the presidential election in afghanistan but many feel the vote will not make a difference in their lives. and the big names take to the track of the world athletics championships will have those details. about democrats in the house of representatives have issued a subpoena to the u.s. secretary of state they want to like pompei a to hand over documents relating to contact with the queen in government this is all part of the 1st steps of an impeachment inquiry into president donald trump rally geishas that he pressured ukraine's president to investigate his political rival joe biden. has more. democratic leaders are

keeping up the pressure on the white house with more calls for subpoenas and hearings next week nancy pelosi reportedly wants to formally vote on impeaching u.s. president donald trump by the end of november this is as serious as it gets when it comes to protecting the constitution of the united states the oath of office that we take i think the president violated that oath phone call with ukraine in which he pushed for ukrainian investigation of his political opponent while withholding u.s. military assistance pushed democrats to begin an impeachment inquiry earlier this week then thursday the public release of a whistleblower report claiming the white house tried to bury the calls records gave democrats the most powerful ammunition yet to see trump impeachment i think we've gotten to the point that if they're not going to do something for us what would they do. something for on friday more than 300 former u.s. national security officials penned

a letter expressing their grave concern they write president trump appears to have leveraged the authority and resources of the highest office in the land to invite additional foreign interference into our democratic processes that would constitute an unconscionable will be use of power it also would represent an effort to subordinate america's national interests and those of our closest allies and partners to the president's personal political interest trump maintains the phone call with the president of ukraine was perfect and says the anonymous intelligence officer who raised alarms is partisan and he's accusing adam schiff the democratic chairman of the intelligence committee of lying to congress and misrepresenting the call in a tweet the president called for schiff to immediately resign from congress house democrats have been investigating the president for several potential crimes including obstruction of justice and money laundering that's played into trump's

claims that his political opponents are searching for any way to remove him from office democrats say going forward they'll focus on ukraine to capitalize on public anger while it exists but even if they succeed in impeaching trump removing him from office is another matter that would require the cooperation of republicans whose leader in the senate calls the accusations against trump laughable castro al-jazeera washington. and we can get more on this from patty call him who joins us now from washington d.c. patty 1st i want to start with these u.s. media reports that are saying that president trump special representative to the ukraine kurds folk are resigned can you give us more details and what does this mean for the waterbeach men's inquiry. well this is starting to trickle in but we peter baker the chief new york times white house correspondent just tweeted it out and he has excellent record so yes he's saying the current volcker submitted his

resignation so why does this matter well in this complaint kurt volker is former ambassador court he's figures prominently in here and the whistleblowers say he knows what went on so the these congressional committees now have subpoenaed 5 different people they're going to testify over the next 2 weeks kurt volker saying that he's stepping away from the state department gives him potentially more ability to talk now the president what he's been doing the u.s. president donald trump what he's been doing during all these investigations not just up until now but he's invoked executive privilege saying that anyone he's talked to can't actually speak to members of congress now he could still claim that with volcker having left the administration but it's important to point out that when the president is facing impeachment hearing the courts give wide latitude to congress to investigate this comes back from richard nixon went all the way up to the supreme court and the supreme court ruled that when it comes to investigating

potential corruption and crimes that executive privilege pretty much goes away so it is an interesting development and also in the broader context loker and the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani have been sort of going at each other while giuliani more than vulgar he's been tweeting out tech screen screens of text messages from vulgar basically saying if i'm going to out he's going down they told the state department told me to do it so it's going to be really interesting another development in what has really been a very fast moving story and deed and who else is being targeted in this inquiry. well mike the secretary of state has been stoled to basically look at every piece of communication every record that you have that is anything to do with ukraine potentially even the transcript of this controversial phone call preserve it you need to hand that over to congress now the thing is congress has been asking him for documents for months and he's simply just ignored them but again courts much more likely to rule in favor of congress if it comes to that we don't know if he's going to comply they've given him a deadline they're also going to depose

a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was pulled out by the trump administration because they thought she was disloyal volcker is going to be testifying in the 3rd deposed on the 3rd forward deputy system secretary of state the counselor to the secretary of department of state and also the u.s. ambassador to the european union the democrats in the message they're going to move quickly on this they feel as heidi mentioned that they have the momentum and this is a little bit different we've seen congressional hearings where members of congress tend to grandstand don't necessarily get a ton of information out of their witnesses a deposition is not for the cameras and usually it's with the committees legal counsel which tend to be really good prosecutors and again they'll be under oath so the committee trying to get all of this information quickly volcker resigning is an interesting twist radical again with the latest from washington thank you. variants have returned to the streets for this 32nd week in a row to democratise all of the country's powerful army chiefs they say they want.

to step down before a presidential election the vote is scheduled for mid december. nigerian police say they have freed more than $300.00 male students held captive in a building in the northern city of could do not some were found metal chains around their ankles it's alleged that some of the students as young as 9 were sexually abused and tortured the building was disguised as a school adds operating as a we have lateesha. 7 people have been arrested. this place is not. an islamic school because you have small children some of them up about 4 in the neighboring countries but you know fossil miley. the children gathered here for all of us all over the county illinois here some of them why even chain i use human eyes. and our manager says one is from a. police say some of the rescue children had marks on their body that showed

evidence of torture at some point or another meanwhile many of them were found chained to structures or some some form of metals inside the building which was registered as an islamic school but also some rehabilitation work is going on there the police are saying that neither do the operators of the institution had licenses to operate as health workers or rehabilitation work is no the institution is some was registered as a rehabilitation center and it's believed that many of the inmates of that institution or school were taken there by their parents either for islamic education or for some form of these talks if occasion because it's thought that many of those found there had abused some illicit substances at one point or another investigation is currently going on but reports from the city itself says that many of such institutions exist in the city of kabul and other parts of nigeria. and still ahead our knowledge is there. in other antigovernment protests

in hong kong this time the focus is on the activists detained here the tide of border. the u.n. voices concern of the abduction of anti-government protesters and zimbabwe. did sports a good day for red bull and practice for the russian grand prix barlow have the details. and there was some nice weather across the south of the southeast of the united states but there's a real change on the cars look at all this child streaming in across northern sections pushing down out of southern canada and this is bringing with it a winter storm now is fairly widespread this time of year storms like this can really cool some damage the leaves are on the trees it's going to be very heavy wet

snow some pretty strong winds in fact we could be seeing some blizzards and that snow really spreading southwards as we go on into sunday pushing all the way down into areas of wyoming and across into utah and of the temperatures minus one celsius in calgary elsewhere in the united states we have got that line of showers and thunderstorms up the midwest and central plains and ahead of that it is still warm and mostly dry then down into the carriage been very unsettled very widespread scattered thunderstorms no way saying particularly heavy rains i think tropical in the forecast but what we have go is this system here just sitting off the west coast of southern mexico and this will continue to bring some very heavy rain over the next couple of days this rain is coming down on some very saturated ground so we could to have some localized flooding and some landslides meanwhile not too bad . of 23 degrees.

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hello again you're watching out is there and his reminder for main stories this hour thousands of protesters have defied a security crackdown for a 2nd successive friday in egypt and joint demonstrations calling for the president to step down big use of the fuck out sisi of corruption and destroying the economy . pakistan's prime minister iran khan is called on the un to intervene and prevent a potential bloodbath and the administered kashmir and the revoke the region 70 autonomy status last month a security clampdown has been in place ever since. and u.s.

media reports say president donald trump a special envoy to ukraine has resigned as the controversy over his call with his ukrainian counterpart gathers steam during that conversation trump is it reported to have asked him for help in investigating his rival joe biden's son who was working in ukraine. afghanistan is on high alert just hours before the presidential election $100000.00 extra security personnel will be guarding polling stations across the country following threats of more attacks from the taliban and reports voters believe the controversial election will make a difference. compared to previous elections most afghans are going into this ballot bowl with a sense of trepidation then hope international forces have been reduced and the security situation has worsened. the front runner remains the incumbent president.

but in both of the 2 pre-election t.v. debates he failed to show up giving his main rival abdullah abdullah free rein to attack him if the current president has failed he should have made a consensus on the peace process with political allies and started negotiations with the taliban the taliban has repeated it to carry out attacks against polling stations in the cities there's a heavy security presence to prevent that but the taliban has made large gains in much of a role afghanistan which could result in a low turnout that. works as a journalist in northern conducive province which is changed hands between government and taliban control several times a month again we hear that people are getting ready to move to other places we saw the same situation at the last election in the fall with ski it only about a 3rd of people will vote she is one of only a few women working in media in this part of afghanistan and is the manager of

a local radio station has faced death threats from the taliban still she is determined to go along with her work and with her right to vote after the people today even if the taliban gets control of congress i will still use my right to vote because my one can determine our future i want to be a role model for my afghans. still exerting a considerable influence is the former president hamid karzai he holds out hope of long term peace with the taliban in spite of the recent decision by the us to cancel the deal. i call upon my taliban brothers to come and sit with afghans if you want to talk to foreigners talk to them but you should be making actual peace with your own people but he's warned that any violent disruption because of this election would make peace as elusive as ever bright al-jazeera couple. the nearly as top there syrian constitutional committee will

meet its fetzer land at the end of next month the united nations special envoy on syria says the committee represents an important breakthrough for the future of the war torn country our diplomatic editor james bass spoke with gary patterson. for the 1st time of the 8 and a half years of war and conflict of actually have an agreement between the government and between the opposition as and c. so this sense an important message to the syrian people that change is possible have you vesey all the names with regard to human rights make sure there's no one with blood on their hands and given the tentacles of the assad spice this make sure there's no members of the intelligence community hidden in a secure nice let's be. clear i'm on this we want to be have done is to is to work on the assumption that the government is responsible for their 50 that they have nominated the opposition is responsible for the 50 that they have nominated

and then we have a middle 3rd that the u.n. them has been working on together with the potus so of course this is a compromise can you guarantee to us after all the time of the assads in power since $970.00 just sharm elections that at the end of this whatever constitution they come up with will be a properly democratic constitution and there will be as that resolution says free and fair elections i think what i can guarantee is the vertical of the constitution will be based on the aspirations of the syrian people you know this is syrians sitting together for the 1st time update on the half years of working on their own constitution and i see rightly pointed out the security council has risen and. pursuant to the new constitution there should be a free and fair elections where all syrians should participate including their

asper on the u.n. supervision so this is my mandate i've already of course discussed this both with the government and with the opposition s.n.c. i have of course i'm elected expert all ready berthing on this for me of preparing ourselves and of course preparing hopefully then the syrian parties can i guarantee that this will take place you know but as you write the stated this is part of my mandate it's very clear to stamp that stated and it's also international consensus 1st it's 1st take place. iran has released a british tanker that it attained 2 months ago in the strait of hormuz as the center in peril is now in international waters the seizure of the ship in july further escalated tensions in the gulf the vessel has now started transmitting its location for the 1st time in weeks filter icon as a partner drea global it's a maritime security risk consultancy and he says interfering with shipping would make iran even more isolated. and 1st you have to remember this is good news for

shipping overall so having the tank released after 70 days with its crew on board will no doubt be relieved to be heading to a more friendly environment where they'll no doubt change a crew out before the us all goes on to continue as normal operations we have to consider the fact that this would never likely have happened had the u.k. not attained the grace one in the 1st place the iran's meddling with international shipping doesn't serve its overall case it brings potentially only the ire of the world because of the nature of shipping these are international ships with international interests international cargoes doesn't necessarily serve its bigger agenda so does it you know what's the implication implication is effectively iran would want to release this vessel to take the are i on the pressure off having detain them for 70 days now little progress has been made on securing a bragg's a day and that's us but another round of talks taking place in brussels they is

chief negotiator met with his british counterparts and arlen's foreign minister arlen has accused the u.k. of not coming up with any new proposals and has the latest. it's been an extraordinarily toxic week in british politics particularly after those weapons they confrontations in the house of commons between the prime minister boris johnson and in particular opposition m.p.'s boris johnson calling a piece of legislation which is designed to stop britain leaving the e.u. without a deal as a surrender act and that really incited an inflamed tempest on both sides of the house but away from the arguments and the rhetoric there has been some actual negotiations taking place in brussels on friday the problem is that doesn't appear to have been any tangible progress from then we're going to hear from a couple of those people involved in meetings in brussels 1st of all the british breck's it secretary stephen barclay i think there's still

a long way to go i think we are coming to the moment of truth in these negotiations we will see if that's a political world and both sides will commit it to securing a deal we're committed to leaving on the 31st of october but that deal just to be without the backstop now those sound bites moments of truth long way to go if he repeated those in several answers it appeared that that was clearly the pre-prepared answer he was going to give no matter what the question but the problem is that the irish foreign minister simon covais was also in brussels and he had a very different take on the stage that the negotiations are at until there is a serious proposal in writing that can be the basis for a negotiation. then the gaps that are wide at the moment will remain. and time is running out so you can see it's not just differences in the tone of the rhetoric it's also big differences in the contents of what's being said and what's being agreed or not agreed and remember all of this just 3 weeks until an e.u.

summit takes place in brussels at which the hopes are a deal can finally be struck. and hong kong thousands of protesters have been rallying in support of activists detained at the border with mainland china many in the holding center have been treated in hospital for broken bones on thursday at the city's chief executive kerry lamb how they public talk over the protest it was the 1st time she sat down with her critics since the pro-democracy demonstrations began 16 weeks ago star clark has more from hong kong. thousands of people have rallied in central hong kong to show their support for those people who've been arrested and anger over what i say is police abuse on no sleep in the times in a detention center on the hong kong china. this is the 1st of a number of protests in the coming days on saturday will be an assembly at the legislative council building on sunday will be a march on hong kong. expected to attract large numbers the police are preparing also for violent clashes the one which marks the 7th anniversary of the founding of

the people's republic of china beijing groups will celebrate. the pride democracy activist groups on hold their own and china demonstration i will go out and voice my opinions i expect the train stations to be closed but i am still joined the demonstration to be more than 1500 people arrested in these anti-government demonstrations are now entering the 17th week. the rising number of anti-government protesters arrested or abducted in zimbabwe has sparked concerns with the u.s. special ruppert's or. has wrapped up a visit there and his findings raise questions about zimbabwe's human rights records are metasearch imports from harare. it's the 1st official visit by an independent human rights expect the un. 10 days in zimbabwe human rights workers say dozens of activists have been abducted the since january their dues.

of if you don't belong to this party you are with this party and this polarization and the lack of trust the lap of also political dialogue is something that also impacts on the in germans of the right for freedom of association peaceful assembly in many of my discussion with victims of. excessive use of force by police there was a victim related that they were targeted because they belong to opposition party. the most recent alleged abduction was of union leader dr peter mccann day today's health workers marched to manage no way they call it was he was later found alive government officials deny abducting citizens the police is keen to apprehend the alleged abductors so as to bring them to justice and protect the public.