security is stepped up across india ahead of a court verdict on the ownership of a religious site claimed by both hindus and muslims. i'm sam is a than this is al jazeera live from coming up. a wave of anger on the streets of july a day after the president announced tougher measures against violence. i. brazil's former president lula the silver is freed

from jail off the supreme court ruling. adding fuel to the fire protests in lebanon are affecting a fragile economy. now as we're hearing a court in india has started to announce a verdict on the rule of the ownership of a religious sites both hindus and muslims claim the land where a 16th century mosque was raised in 1992 thousands of troops have been deployed in the northern town of the idea the provincial government of the pradesh has ordered all schools and colleges to remain closed until monday. security has also been tightened across the country and india's prime minister narendra modi has tweeted appealing for calm he said whatever decision the supreme court arrives at it will

not be a victory or defeat of anyone i appeal to the countrymen that all of us prioritise that this decision should further strengthen india's great traditions of peace unity and good will a long awaited verdict is on a land disputed by hindus and muslims at least 2000 people were killed in riots after hardline hindus demolished the 16th century mosque there in 1992 and johor has more. the city on the banks of the so you river in north india is the epicenter of the divide between hindus and muslims. at the heart of the dispute is this piece of land claimed as the birthplace of the hindu deities. a mosque was here until it was demolished by him the war 27 years ago. i. as her now 68 really remembers the day in brown's father was burnt alive in the

courtyard of the house one of at least 2000 people killed all over india in the hindu muslim rights which followed. as the court delivers its word ticked emraan says he doesn't seek revenge not even justice but a final resolution. no violence after the court's decision whether it comes in favor of the order but we do want clashes to erupt in our city. that is a common sentiment in. reclaiming their heritage and building a temple. it's about politics they say dispute is about domination of the hindus 1st by the muslims and then by the british it is time they say for the hindus to assert themselves as the majority but for many muslims it's about whether their rights are protected. hopes of

a compromise have been raised by a committee set up by the supreme court to invite rival communities to. differences . from a group called muslims for peace says that if muslims when they must give their share of the land to the hindus as long as assurances are given with that other mosques won't be attacked again. if they come with this guarantee muslims must think about either gifting or exchanging land for. the. hindus involved in the supreme court case seem agreeable to the compromise he said we would really not have any objection. and appropriate to. a. place where the majority. there.

is worried about the supreme court and the potential for history repeating itself. and joins us now live from new delhi and understand the court has started to deliver its verdict what are we hearing. well sunny will be new is of the 5 judges have assembled they've gotten together in the supreme court of india and the world it should come out any any time now that's really the update of it also briefly if i may talk about massive security arrangements that have been put in place in anticipation of this were dicked in 92 when bobby moss was demolish it was that demolition was followed by massive rides all over india in which 2000 people were killed so this time around a lot of security arrangements have been put in place have jotted some down 12000 police personnel have been deployed all over that is the state in north india where the disputed site is where is there is also the moment heavy security outside the

supreme court of india itself and the judges have gotten their security has also been beefed up we've also learned that security officials are using drones they're flying drones over a of the where the disputed site is to make sure that they can keep an eye on any activity that goes on there that could cause violence the police officials have held $10000.00 meetings with the religious leaders both the hindus and the muslims in and around. all over the state actually to make sure that they can keep the tempers down so as the word comes out you know it's not that there's no while and they can control the local groups security officials are also watching social media to check are there no provocative tweets although the hash tag that's trending in india is hindu muslim or in those of muslims all brothers that's the

hash tag that's trending you have bill dreams in the city of are you there are being bussed out to wherever they need to go so the security officials are also taking that precaution that indeed media is also reporting that if this see the situation even slightly getting out of hand they may impose. an internet blackout and other areas wherever they see. emerging there is also a special which will on $600.00 people who the security officials anticipate could cause trouble our special regional on line not in person but on line 3 of our 30 plus sensitive districts in whatever they are where the security officials are especially keeping an eye to make sure other things there also don't go out of france in short lots and lots of security arrangements in place by the us government and prime ministers tweeted hindu leaders and muslim leaders have both called for calm so a tense atmosphere really but the word it should come out soon and we'll find out

if you know it till steward's one site or if it's found a balance ok we're going to ask you to obviously stay with us as we await this verdict let's bring in though to the discussion sanjay cup or he's editor of hard news magazine he joins us from new delhi we may be minutes away from this ruling tell us what's at stake for the entire country. you know i'm for the last that i was thinking about it i was about 2829 when this and died this feud blew up in a certain way and now i'm actually at the threshold of. getting over actually reporting and hanging. and there's been carrying on for so long but in the last 30 odd years maybe for more. the time movement has changed the calabria politics of how people discuss this matter it has brought up b.p. as a national force at least to be

a party with minimal it's about 2 seats so it has acquired the kind of stature it was there earlier so in a certain way the general me bobby might dispute and especially it started with the time when the g.o.p. launched a nation by the movement that the temple should be built in which is a player but a large ground has changed the way secular india was really conceived in 1947 and it has in a certain way influence all the political parties in a manner that nobody can you know in a position to question the majority point of view on this i mean they would say that if a temple has to be built for laundromat has to be built in a year they cannot be anything else but this entire dispute is about who owns that piece of land and there have been layers of history which has been piled on because india's history is also a history of invasions where you had the movers who came in then subsequent you had the british and everybody left and impressed. reading and perspective on this

particular dispute and then you have. a government of india in 147 subsequently you have a party which arose from the entire movement to build a dam temple so you know if i'm going to jump in here. today politically important is it for the prime minister reason. that they get a verdict that allows them to build a 10 i because the time mr modi ran even this year in the election campaigning on a platform a vowel to build a hindu temple on the rubble of the mosque which was destroyed. i mean let's face it prime minister nobody is a creation other creature all around genoa bumi movement and he has been in a great hurry to. fulfill all the promises that he has made in the manifesto so

earlier you know the abrogation of articles the 70. special days to press release was done away with so if he gets a favorable judgment because you cannot anticipate what is going to be in the judgment if you manage to get a favorable judgment that there will be a 2nd major electoral promise that the b.g.p. would be doing it so. in a certain way if you look at it it is very very important what comes out of the judgment because. the people feel very strongly about it in fact there was certain cynicism that was to prevail among the support of the b.n. many of those who got swayed into what it would be. that they would not ever consult around them so in a certain way there would be greater polarization with the support from mr moore the so it is very critical i mean goes without saying all right i'm sure going to be talking about this loss today but for now thank you very much for your thoughts

and analysis on that one sanjay kapoor's. well let's take you now to chile where a group of protesters are openly defying president sebastian pinera threats of tougher security measures against violent protesters mosques demonstrators set fire to university in the capital santiago and some are looting and destroying property and in the last few hours police fired tear gas and water cannon a protest through. demonstrations 1st began over a hike. they've now spiraled into widespread anger against economic policies 20 people have been killed nearly 2000 others injured in violence in the past few weeks. demonstrations have been violent in america. as chile enters day 23 of this social upheaval we are still seeing the 2 faces of these demonstrations on the one hand tens of thousands of people again marching

peacefully. the main convergence point. on the periphery of all that there are smaller but very violent groups many of them armed with. more than 100 year old mansion that houses the. firemen took a long time to get there to try to put it out because of the barricades set up. to help them but it was too late to stop the building from being destroyed by. all this is happening. hours after president. announced a long list of what he called measures to stop the violence from continuing. still ahead of al jazeera the jewel in the crown we look at investing concerns about the world's biggest oil producing company.

a lot of his a huge downpours both rain and snow up in kashmir but you see the clouds disappearing now so what we have had will probably be the end of it even afghanistan looking sunny down is true throughout everywhere to the west always the eastern med we're still quite warmer temps in the twenty's in turkey so $27.00 in beirut not just below 30 in baghdad even tehran still hanging on that sort of level but the cloud in southern iran will develop into something in the next day or so in the arabian peninsula but it's left behind this fine looking weather was temps has barely changed and the winds as yet not that strong so what to watch for well proper right now i think it'll start off in southern iran and then probably just clip the emirates on its way towards counter in eastern saudis assessing night

sunday even monday this whole likely produce some substantial sunday storms 1st proper rain of the changing season it's all looking fine bit breezy maybe not particularly cold not particularly warm or nice to be on so if you don't know thunderstorms enjoy the blue sky southern africa of course should be active weather wise activities the circulation on saturday sort of ignores the fact that in the southern hemisphere that's an area of high pressure so it's a daytime waltz for using big thunderstorms in the eastern side of south africa. it's all dismissed remember take a working here it's a 7 day a week job that's going on with a community my father purchased a black ambulance. started to do the funerals in london and. we saw the stopping part of indonesia and we can is this part of this story as we told our team here

told by the people who the gift is such a level. east and undertakers this is europe and al-jazeera. all come back to watching out just 0 time to recap the headlines india's top court is expected to rule on the ownership of a religious site hindus and muslims claim the land where a centuries old mosque was raised in 992 security has been tightened across the country with thousands of troops deployed in the northern town of ayodhya. security forces a fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in capital santiago city's main

university is also on fire believed to have been lit by vandals protesters are demanding education and economic reforms. brazil's former president lula da silva has walked out of prison after 19 months a judge ordered his release after the country's top court rule to end mandatory jail time for convicted criminals stories about reports. he supporters had demanded his freedom since he was detained last year. or simply left prison on friday surrounded by hundreds of his supporters. you have no idea of the significance for me to be here with you i who my whole life talked with the brazilian people never thought that today i could be here talking with men and women who during the past 580 days were here saying good morning lula good afternoon lula and yelling good night lula no matter if it were raining if it were 40 degrees or 0 degrees. on thursday the supreme court voted to reinterpret

a law that meant anyone convicted of a crime was jailed after losing their 1st appeal the ruling allows lula and more than 4000 others to exhaust all their appeal options before being locked up. a new low was convicted last year of taking bribes in exchange for public works contracts it was part of the so-called carwash corruption investigation that saw dozens of politicians and business men detained for their role in cases that involved bribes and kickbacks from brazil's private and state companies you love the feel of a left office saying that he's ready to fight against what he says is the persecution of the left under the presidency of j.d. it's not clear yet how he's going to do that he wouldn't be able to run for office right now because of what is known here as the clean slate law that bans politicians who have been convicted for corruption. has always denied those charges

saying he was a victim of political persecution the judge involved was mortal who is now j. towards on iraq's minister of justice his impartiality has been questioned by us workers party. to the carwash corruption operation is the largest in brazil's history and polarized society thousands demanded justice on the streets because the investigation discredited brazil's political class discontent pave the way for the election of the us president and that's why not everyone of brazil celebrated last release on friday. i misremembered the point of view because of the news notorious and the mood of people that can make equally no here's a pretty you know and the making of serious damage for the country and there is right now. movement in congress from. showing the situation.

the region in the search for me but in the meantime you lack is free and instead of the weekend by his time in prison he seems determined to reclaim his place in brazilian politics once again. now white house officials have told impeachment investigators the trumpet ministration did pressure ukraine to investigate the president's political rivals the inquiry has released more transcripts from closed door hearings the documents relate to testimony from a former white house advisor and an army officer assigned to the national security council they detail a series of meetings before and after donald trump's phone call with ukraine's president and the gallagher has more from washington d.c.

well some of what lieutenant colonel alexander has said is already known but what we've got in this latest transcript is a lot more fleshing out of the details than in essence what the lieutenant colonel is saying is there was no ambiguity in the july phone call between president trump and president selenski in this army offices opinion is also ukraine expert and a recipient of the purple heart he said it was clear the president was asking the ukrainians to dig up dirt on a political foe in return for military aid in his opinion that was a threat to national security so these are pretty explosive charges in a pretty explosive testimony from someone who served his entire life for the u.s. in the u.s. military also went on to say that john bolton had reportedly reacted exasperated to what was going on had called rudy giuliani president trump's personal lawyer hungered aide and is someone who is going to take everybody down so this is just yet one more testimony from

a senior official who. has 1st hand knowledge of what was going on in these various meetings and in that july phone call but i think what the democrats are doing now as explosive as this is is focusing on the open public hearings which will begin next wednesday that will be a chance for the american public to hear from these officials and hear what they heard firsthand saudi aramco is expected to reveal important details about the oil company just days ahead of its much anticipated stock offering is to help investors and regulators know the risks and opportunities for investment as priyanka gupta reports there are many concerns about the sale already saudi aramco is the world's biggest oil producing company but also seen as the more secretive privately owned and controlled by the saudi kingdom. but now after much hype and many delays it's going public in part at least by selling off a small piece of the company to invest is the timing isn't perfect. just 2 months

back and attacked by humans who the rebels would use the company's oil production by half and global oil prices are low risk. risks. so they are that it was a few months ago. and. the date. commentary out there has been demand has been weaker than expected over the last few months and the expectation is that well the risk. the kingdom hopes to save it bring in enough revenue to fund crown prince mohammed bin so man's vision 2030 his plan to wean the saudi economy off its reliance on oil he wants around goal to be valued at 2 trillion dollars that's the same as microsoft and apple combined but industry experts say that 2 emissions valuation estimates vary

if we make an assumption or one of hard trillion dollars happened in. britain. or america. and by our estimates that really helped finance saudi arabia's budget. just over a year until you know better news themselves 1000 percent it's not making the government coming oil climate change and a push for greener and cleaner energy also puts the value of our abcess huge known oil reserves at risk so your anchor has huge reserves of oil over 60 odd years at current rates of production however as the world the carbon noises all move choice to move away from using oil and other fossil fuels why. is the picture going to look like over time is high value going to be from those fossil fuel reserves or is it going to be ours that tomorrow gets weaker this week

a pricing fossil fuels and hence perhaps a lower margin per barrel it's emerged that saudi rulers are now pressuring billionaires like prince albert leap in collateral to buy stocks some of the investors being targeted were detained during the 2017 anticorruption purge which some members of saudi arabia as well the elite locked up in the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh they're also approaching state owned oil companies and sovereign wealth funds to open their checkbooks china is among them it's the biggest buyer of saudi oil the share price is expected to be announced in december only then we'll find out who is prepared to invest priyanka there are 0 turkey says it will start sending captured isaw members back to their countries of origin next week the interior minister said about $297.00 ice all members were recaptured since the start of the offensive last month he's accused western countries of

a lack of cooperation by putting prisoners on trial in the country where they've been caught. letta taylor is a senior researcher at human rights watch she says western nations should be working with turkey to repatriate citizens we'll have to see how this plays out but the best option for western europe would be to cooperate with turkey rather than continue to drag its feet and and reject the pleas of authorities in the region and its own citizens for them to take back their own people i have a hard time believing that western europe with its mature democracies and its robust judiciaries and investigative systems does not have a way to absorb several 100 several 100 of its own nationals back into its system this strikes me as being an empty argument a shallow argument western europe is going that been content to out of sorts its

citizens to other countries it's time for that to stop for it to stop hiding its head in the sand and to do the right thing by its nationals who are suffering suffering in terrible dire conditions in camps and prisons hundreds of children have died in these camps shame on western europe it's time to at the world bank ging lebanon to form a new cabinet quickly labeling the ongoing instability is deeply concerning there have been more than 3 weeks of protests as demonstrates his call for an overhaul of the political system as a whole that explains the crisis is threatening fuel and medicine imports. the crisis in lebanon is deepening there soon could be fuel shortages importers say banks are not giving them the dollars they need to buy supplies the lack of foreign currency was a problem even before protests against the ruling elite began 3 weeks ago at the time the central bank promised to facilitate access to dollars and guarantee fixed

exchange rates for exporters. the government resigned and banks have reversed the decision banks want 85 percent of the payment of lebanese lira and 15 percent in dollars they have imposed fees importers can no longer afford the additional costs lebanon's largest protest movement of years was triggered by the economic crisis people are demanding a government independent of political parties to prepare for early elections there is a political standoff and it is hurting the economy and hospitals are now warning of what they call a health catastrophe now. well the patients may start dying because of the lack of filters for example our stocks won't last more than a month the government must pay its juice to the hospitals right away and banks should ease transactions so we can pay importers banks are placing restrictions on the withdrawal of hard currency and financial transactions outside the country

remains blocked apart from some exceptions there's so much that. there's no dollars for it we can only. grow the revenues pound but limited quantities there has been no progress on forming a new government caretaker prime minister stadol had 80 is pushing for a politically neutral government to steer the country out of the crisis that is reportedly how do you condition to return as prime minister and he knows he has the support of the international community and among a number of political blocs which puts him in a strong position in negotiations it will be hard to find a replacement and if he steps aside the crisis could go on even longer but the governing alliance continues to insist its parties remain represented in any future cabinet. the world bank is warning that this stalemate could lead to an even

sharper economic downturn lebanon is facing difficult days ahead. beirut. where you can find much more. and let's take you through some of the stories and al-jazeera now india's top court is expected to rule on the ownership of a contentious religious site hindus and muslims claim the land where a centuries old mosque was raised in 1902 security has been tightened across the country with thousands of troops deployed in the northern town. of your dia security forces are fired tear gas and the government protesters in chile's capital santiago the city's main universities also on fire believed to have been lit by vandals protesters are demanding education and economic reforms

brazil's former left this president is out of jail after serving 19 months of a 12 year sentence for corruption money laundering lure of the servers release follows a supreme court ruling overturning the process of criminal appeals now. you have no idea of the significance for me to be here with you i my whole life to talk with the brazilian people never thought that today i could be here talking with men and women who during the past 580 days were here saying good morning lula good afternoon and yelling good night lula no matter if it were raining if it were 40 degrees or 0 degrees. 2 people have been killed as firefighters battle a record number of porch fires emergency services say 7 others are unaccounted for in the eastern states of new south wales and queensland hundreds of homes have been destroyed prime minister scott morrison has announced financial help for farmers

what this is doing is supporting farmers and graziers who know they have a future in the sector and are committed to getting to the other side of this drought and knowing that better days are on the other side and this gives them the massive breathing space to be able to make the investments pay the employees on the farm do the work that they need to purchase for a a just a story make the decisions that dinah are going to need to take over the next few years to ensure that i get to the other side. tens of thousands of people have been back protesting against algeria as power only just 6 weeks ahead of planned elections demonstrations are rejecting next month's vote. about the top of the hour . when an ethiopian mother put her daughter up for adoption she knew little of what was to come. with family been severed the traumatized child

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