a rock and a hard place on al jazeera. india's prime minister accuses the opposition of inciting public anger over a controversial new citizenship law. turn fully back to be a watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead getting a taste for democracy specs head to the polls for parliamentary elections. an exclusive report from mexico where al jazeera reveals just how easy it is for cartels to smuggle guns from the u.s. and australia's prime minister returns home to controversy after holidaying in

hawaii cheering unprecedented bushfires. thank you very much for joining us india's prime minister is refusing to back down on the controversial citizenship law that opponents say discriminates against muslims there and modi has been addressing his supporters at a b. j. p. rally in new delhi he accused his opponents of fueling unrest over the law written by brothers since this law has been passed some political parties have been spreading rumors these people are misleading the public and saucing the public. prime minister modi has also defended india's security forces rise groups say they are using disproportionate force on protesters at least 25 people have been killed and more than 5000 people have been detained in pradesh which has seen the worst of

the violence at least 1500 have been arrested in other parts of india. as spring in life force in the new delhi should be a prime minister modi has accused the opposition of inciting the violence and is asking people not to accept what he called force claims about the citizenship bill will his words make a difference what are people saying that. he. is doing nothing to assuage their anger over here in front of john millions lining in the city where some of the 1st protests started and this is just one of the protests that is going on the basis he the entire city has come to us dance to last more and who are the people who are coming out on the streets it's absolutely crowded and people over here are saying that this is not. this is not about this is not just about this isn't but is about equality it's about the

secularism in india and they're not going to baghdad and they're also angry at the police brutality not only here at the job in a 1000000 slimy university and over the and the article university the 2 universities fair police joined in when protesters the students started protesting and now people over here like the women men children there are out in the streets saying that they are not going to back out until the government backed. controversial law and most of the violence we've seen should be now has been in states or areas that are controlled by the ruling b j p why is that. soon it feels like being in those areas in those days the police were given in pillage even to retaliate against the protesters because there have been protests going on

in other states as well all over in some some plain. says the numbers of people to support 2 and to sense to show solidarity with the students of students of are we going to have week he'd like hundreds of thousands of people who are on the streets but no violence took place but in days here especially you see which is true by which is governed by. the right wing ha he added an alliance there has been a lot of violence and it could not have been without without the support and support from from the government. thank you for that i should be. in new delhi. in other world news voting is underway in parliamentary election and this time they have been a lot of changes a new electoral code has been put in place which requires 30 percent of party

candidates to be women and people with a criminal record can now vote hoda abdel-hamid reports from the capital tashkent. it's a show that at 1st and then galvanize the country allows political debate unscripted and an edited a 1st news because. there have been 29 others over the past 3 months where wide range of topics were discussed often putting the candidates on the spot to the point that this party leader admitted his big politicians lacked courage fortune and some we didn't anticipate this level of success it was difficult at 1st because politicians went ready for this but then they prepared and were able to answer questions they didn't expect people to become more interested in the parties and their programs. then he'll come back off is a proud cook of the national dish cloth and despite steering hundreds of kilos of

rice a day he followed the debates go possumus there was a lot of truth and real issues with these debates we cannot understand what needs to be done in the correct way and what is wrong there is a lot of change and these elections are very different from previous ones who specs will have to choose between 5 parties ranging from left to right on the political spectrum but all our government funded was similar platforms. there are no opposition or independent candidates running in this election. is only 28 years old it was formed after the fall of the soviet union and $99.00 to $1.00 so regardless of this truth cummings people are excited to go to the ballot boxes still for the 1st time the parties are somehow competing against each other. to win over voters since president shaft at me to say your you have took power in 2016 he is gradually taking the country out of isolation reforms. in almost all spheres of

life social life political life a canonical. in some spheres we see great success in some spheres we see some controversial changes and sam's fears we see the real problems of reforming he has permitted greater freedom of expression which allows come only dean he said cool of to speak to us without fear of repercussion at 31 he's a 1st time voter he supports the liberal democratic party because it promised to back small businesses like his on the. us military is elections were just nominal now we say freely what we think before we are scared we can see the reality even if it's still not completely transparent i hope this will continue and it will become more liberal. president museo you have promised that parliament will become

a true school of democracy millions of hope that day comes sooner rather than later . and what i joins us now live from a polling station in tashkent toto what's the turnout been like so far. well the last we heard from the electoral commission was about an hour ago and the turnout was about 58 percent nationwide interesting enough here in tashkent it was below the 50 percent mark at the around 44 percent and the highest turnout at that time was in the south of the country along in the areas along the borders with afghanistan and turkmenistan where turnout there was about 68 percent there's still another 4 hours to go so that number is more likely to change the appears to be more openness says we saw in your report is that likely to continue an end do for

people there feel like this is the beginning of a new era for their country. well i think people who woke up this morning and decided to go and cast their ballots was basically because they were very happen happening a happy so happy about the fact that president has been trying to or has actually been bringing the country slowly out of this isolation it lived in ever since it was formed back in 1991 and for 27 years it was really run by an iron fist. from his pradesh so that is something that has made people very happy that gave them the impetus to really to get involved in this election and i think the government also put a lot of effort. in that way it was a live debate on t.v. all kinds of questions were being asked to the candidates some were put on the spot

and couldn't really answer those questions you also have for example today throughout the day i saw on television. liberties telling people go out and vote so certainly there is that atmosphere of excitement of hope that this is the beginning of a new era it is not a perfect election there are no opposition voices candidus taking part in a down no independent candidates taking part in this election 'd but it doesn't seem to bother most of the people i spoke to at the moment they say this is just a beginning we hope in the next round will be more liberal and more transparent thank you very much for that hoda abdel-hamid reporting live from tashkent. now mexico is dealing with its highest murder rate on record with a majority of firearms involved being smuggled in from the united states violence across the border has been under increasing scrutiny after a number of u.s. citizens were met at last month in the 1st of a 2 part investigation into arms trafficking between the u.s.

and mexico john holeman talks to those smuggling guns across the border and the. hit men that end up using then. it shocked the 17th of october 2019 the day the sinhala kut-o. turned out like an army with a devastating array of firepower they subjugated the miss camilla treat self and took over the streets of coolie a kind of going to war but this man says he was then fighting with the cartel we're talking about their weapons were most of the people there and on the side of the car with american guns the yes of course because all of the arms that we use here are from the other side of the border. what they got to go he's a hit man a soldier through organized crime one of the many across mexico responsible for record murder right how difficult would it be to do your job. if there wasn't this free flow coming from the united states. it would be hard because the u.s.

is the chief supplier that's where we get the new explosive guns we need. people of the guns that have been seized in mexico and traced 70 percent come from the united states there's a reason it's hard to get a gun legally in mexico but the regulations are extremely strict not so in the u.s. and cartels you struggle by as gun shop scene shows to get glocks a k 47 s. off if things and even machine guns it's this man's job to smuggle them across the border about the truth is that it's very easy to get them across we do hide them in the upholstery or where we can but the customs agents here don't really focus on that and searching it they never searched the car. we saw that for us selves when we made the journey from the u.s. into mexico on a busy thursday night there were no possible controls we saw no border offices and just to customs officials checked to see of cars that were already free were into

mexico. a lack of vigilance which is hard to reconcile with mexico's concerns. the most worrying issue in mexico are the guns the guns that we saw on coolly a-kon were impressive i want to propose again but using the latest technology from both countries we can stop the arms trafficking at the border. we asked for an interview with mexico's foreign ministry in its customs agency to discuss those border security plans we didn't hear back. meanwhile quantities of weapons continue to be brought across this stashed in a multitude of safe houses on arrival the gun run is in charge of this one in a suburb of the border town mccully. when we come back with guns they can stay here a day or 2 and then our people come to get them when everything is ready take them away they're distributed throughout the country being caught with one should mean jail time but if the gun runners get stopped by local police there's a simple solution. as they say here with money the dog dances sort it all out with

cash and we each coraline way but i don't know you and you don't know me with the guns make their way to the cartel soldiers the same ones the battle to be commits can authorities on the 17th of october this confrontation between the cartel and the government. that wouldn't have happened if the scene of. this easy access to weapons. through a process so yes it would happen but obviously as you say it would have been hard for us without that number of weapons i mean we probably wouldn't have beaten them if it wasn't so easy to get hold of the guns. in the mix can foresee humiliation then and in direct consequence of leaving us gun regulations and this country's insufficient border security but there are other consequences to more intimate ones for the thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part 2 will tell their

stories john homan al jazeera mccully. still ahead on al-jazeera i'm rob reynolds on the us mexico border where president trump's border wall is under construction in one of the most biologically diverse areas in north america. how i once again welcome to the look at the international focus when it doesn't see bad across japan at the moment we have seen some clouds and rain pushing in that cross southern and central parts of the country this weather system not too far away just flicking up some tampa whether they'd see that a side of honshu was a go one and see monday 10 celsius in the cloud and dry and therefore. as we go on that broaden up a little bit but just notice it will tend

a little more wintry picking up we're been mortally feed on the weather across to those northern areas of conscious little bit of cloud there still in place and see where q she. crossed the korean peninsula but quick to catch one of 2 wintry flowers as we go through the next dial so little bit of cloud same into central parts of china still a child system right up towards shankar but for the most it's got to be dry hong kong gets up to around $22.00 decrease $23.00 perhaps as we go on through choose die a fair amount of cloud around but as i said staying lousy on the dry side increasing cloud will gradually push in rather wet some windy weather towards the philippines in the form of a developing tropical storm as we go on into choose day that really wet and windy weather will make its way in the middle part of the week could see some flooding across central parts of the country.

to an immense like no i've been in that at the beginning we used to be in the street using a soft. al-jazeera world meets a group of sudanese boy is determined to win against a backdrop of conflict and uncertainty business. when i walk in the street people stop me. it's because a. door for football for peace on al-jazeera. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera india's prime minister is accusing his political opponents of fueling unrest over a controversial citizenship law that critics say discriminates against muslims and

under modi has also defended india security forces in a specious supporters in new delhi say police are using disproportionate force on protesters at least 25 people have been killed a voting is under way in autumn entry election and this time there's been a lot of changes and you naturally called has been put in place which replies 30 percent of party candidates to be women and people with a criminal record can now full and mexico's dealing with its highest murder rate on record with the majority of firearms involved being smuggled in from the united states violence across the border has been under increasing scrutiny after number of us citizens were there just last month. the prime minister scott morrison has returned to australia after taking a family vacation as wildfires and a heat wave swept across the country is facing public outrage for being in hawaii as more than $100.00 blazes were burning under schapelle has more. long been

criticized for failing to directly link climate change to the bushfires in australia but. prime minister scott morrison visited areas affected by fires on sunday that changed our government is a wise and i have always acknowledged the connection between those weather events in these broader far events and the impacts godley of climate change but his critics say he's let australia fall behind and then there's his decision to take a family vacation in hawaii as a stray burnt morrison cut short the trip after 2 volunteer firefighters died in new south wales the worst hit state. or weather over the weekend has given firefighters some relief but the situation is still out of control more than a 5th of the blue mountains world heritage site has been burnt by fire while some towns including balmoral have been ravaged twice in 3 days the fires have burned an area the size of belgium and destroyed more than 800 homes is devastating not

knowing way your property standing on not unfortunately we have to save bad news is not much left in. some survivors say the sound of the fire terrified them the most as winds blew flames over mountains like a. river a fall i would cry try to make thing current you could hear the trees exploiting the. water thousands of firefighters many of them volunteers are also tiring as they try to contain about 60 fires that are out of control we've got fawzi spreading from north face new south wales a queensland border down to the south coast of new south wales logistical challenges transport and an accommodation challenge is spreading and moving people right across such a broad geographic area all add to the challenges of crew right tyson lower temperatures have helped the fight but there's no rain forecast for the days ahead and temperatures will soon rise again and are schapelle al-jazeera. preliminary

results from afghanistan's presidential election show incumbent ghani has secured a slim majority the results had been expected in october but was only released by the independent election commission on sunday danny secured just over 50 percent of the vote officials for his main rival of do not deny say they don't accept the results electoral commission says the final count could change how the war doc is a political analyst and founding member of transparency afghanistan he says it will be very difficult for the party so agree on the final whistles chief executive of the law has already challenged. the preliminary results saying that she still have a lot of fraudulent votes that needs to be sorted out which could bring president gunnies 50.64 percent votes down. the case no goes. to the elections complaints commission which will look which will look at the

complaints but at the same time writing we are looking at some sort of agreement between of the. president of the army i think we we are sort of going back to what happened in 2014 your father elections which which had very little turnout from the afghan general public and then you had massive amount of corruption as there was the issue of electoral bio richard woods people got to vote who were not biometrically devices or biomarkers were flawed and a lot of delays raising the issues now that you have to sort of remove the fraudulent goods from from the overall rules police in hong kong have to use force to try and disperse crowds of protesters in the city's financial districts the violence follows a national peaceful rally in support of we grow minority muslims economy for the human rights to be respected following an alleged crackdown in china beijing has been accused of holding millions of weak or in prison like camps hong kong has

experienced 6 months of protests. the jamaat islami political party in pakistan is holding a large protest against india's decision to strip kashmir of a so tommy the party's modernize hundreds of people over the past 2 weeks to bring attention to the situation which they say is an issue that's been forgotten you denny formally divided indian administered kashmir into 2 new federal territories last month last month and it revoked the region's autonomy in august. in libya drone strikes by khalifa have tossed forces have killed 3 people in the north western town of. internationally recognized government says the drones are being used by the united arab emirates which supports hafta last week the warlord announce what he called a final offensive to take the capital tripoli. has more. the government forces tried to enter the homeowner city about 65 kilometers to the south east

from the capital tripoli to hold is the main stronghold for have to his forces and it has the central command from where from which have those generals along with the russian military experts are running their battles in southern tripoli that's according to the government of national accord so government forces tried to open new front lines near tarhouni city but they were through they say that they faced. by have to draw fighter jets meanwhile a new city has witnessed clashes in its vicinity near the city of the horn the city of which is about 88 kilometers to the south southeast from the capital tripoli the city of among the civil cities that have recently declared mass mobilization to prevent have to us forces from entering the capital tripoli

now so that there is facing have to the forces and its southern vicinities after the government forces withdraw from the area and local sources in the latter say that hundreds of civilians have left their homes because of the fighting and random rockets have been landing inside the city 3 people were killed and a dozen others were wounded according to medical sources sources in the city of. in syria at least 25000 civilians have reportedly fled the province for the turkish border as the syrian and russian forces intensify their bombardment at least 3 people have been killed in the major sas strikes syrian troops are advancing on the country's last rebel held area. a plague of locusts in somalia in neighboring ethiopia is being described as the worst of its kind for 70 years the united nations food agency says many are and unable to feed

their families because of the destruction to large areas of crops insects have page parts of somalia following weeks of unprecedented torrential rain i am almost locusts punish the whole area became top farms and all plants one 3rd don we won't have anything to feed our children we weren't even able to buy anything from the market. voters in croatia are heading to the polls for a presidential election 11 candidates are running including incumbent leader kalinda grab by a key tire of each opinion polls show that it could be a tight race between her and her main rivals the whole comes escalation is set to take over the rotating presidency of the european union next month now an internal report investigating the roman catholic church says at least $175.00 children were sexually abused by priests linked to an ultra conservative mexican branch known as

the legionaries of christ according to the document it's found. assaulted nearly 60 children is among 33 priests or deacons known to have committed sexual abuse against minors since 1981 when the group was founded. donald thompson action promise to build a border wall with mexico is taking shape construction crews are busy in arizona but environmentalists every virus or damage is being done to one of the most biologically don't die various regions of the us. president donald trump's border barrier is under construction in southern arizona. crews with heavy equipment are carving a path through the desert the wall will go along the southern edge of the organ pipe cactus national monument an area of exceptional beauty the u.s. national park service says the 1340 square kilometer monument preserves one of the earth's major ecosystems in nearly unspoiled condition. the united nations

designated organ pipe national monument as an international biosphere reserve environmentalists say wall construction threat these this pristine environment we've got endangered. pup fish also known as this annoyed pup fish right here in this stream you can see him swimming around over there are they an endangered species they are a lot of 4 endangered species here workers will pump water from underground to mix concrete for the barriers base possibly drying out this desert always says which is just a few 100 metres from the border the barrier will block the normal migration routes of rare animal species like puma on the antelope the human experience will also change a 50 kilometer and 9 meter tall wall equipped with floodlights that are on all night long that's what's being proposed here and it's insane our night skies are

going to be destroyed we're not going to see the stars anymore from the campground and it's going to be an eyesore this is a place that's designated wilderness it's supposed to look pristine and now it's going to look like. 50 kilometer prison wall in order to build the wall president trump declared a state of national emergency here on the border now that together with other legal loopholes has allowed the government to completely disregard numerous laws designed to protect environmentally sensitive areas like this environmentalist have taken the administration to court in an effort to slow or halt construction but for now the wall marches relentlessly for. rob rebels al-jazeera near solenoid mexico cuba has its 1st prime minister since fidel castro 43 years ago monument it all is the 1st appointment as part of cuba's new can

constitutionally the post was abolished when fidel castro became an all powerful president after 15 years as tourism minister mario seen as part of the generational change from the revolutionary old guard of the communist party. so again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera india's prime minister is accusing his political opponents of fueling unrest over a citizenship law that critics say discriminates against muslims there under modise also defended the security forces in a speech at a b j p rally in new delhi began by the brothers since this law has been passed some political parties have been spreading rumors these people are misleading the public inciting the public. sabinus ressa has more now from new delhi. i mean right

outside which i mean i mean it's i mean you were street where some of the 1st protests i didn't feel like it is 2 different countries that one. rally that mr moody is in versus the rallies that that's here and in some of. the other students. of the constitution of india they're talking about the constitution of india they're talking about secularism and it was even within the constitution and it is imperative to just say they had to kind of ensure that the integrity on which this nation was built is. if. it's kept intact mexico is dealing with its highest murder rate on record with most firearms involved being smuggled in from the united states violence across the border has been under increasing scrutiny after a number of u.s. citizens were made its last month voting is underway in parliamentary election and

this time there have been a lot of changes a new electoral code has been put in place that requires 30 percent of party candidates to be women and people with a criminal record can now vote in afghanistan preliminary results from september's presidential election show the incumbent danny has secured a slim majority the office of his main rival of do not do less says it does not accept these early results and cooler weather conditions across australia are expected to help firefighters contain more than 100 blazes fires have been burning out of control in conditions described as catastrophic at least 8 people have been killed. with headlines on al-jazeera join me next on inside story thanks for watching.

alonso mocks decision by the international criminal court to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in the occupies policy and territory israel expresses outrage and says the court has no jurisdiction so will there be a full investigation and what can it achieve this is inside still. and welcome to the program fully back to bowl after nearly 5 years of preliminary examinations the international criminal court has announced there is enough evidence to.