of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem 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. kind of them telling madonna this is live from doha also coming to an exclusive report from mexico where our dizzier reveals just how easy it is for cartels to smuggling guns from the u.s. . still as prime minister returns home from hawaii to kentucky to see as the country enjoys unprecedented it's. just getting

a taste of democracy is bags head to the polls for parliamentary elections. india's prime minister is refusing to back down on a controversial citizenship law that opponents say discriminates against muslims they argue the legislation is an attack on the country's secular constitution it's been assessed or has more now from new delhi 7. it's the greatest challenge india's prime minister narendra modi has faced since he came to power 5 years ago dozens of people have been killed during protest against a 3rd of the chip law which many think discriminates against muslims addressing thousands of his supporters at an election rally in new delhi modi blamed the opposition for stoking the protests began by little is would be my brother's sense

of the slow has been passed some political parties have been spreading rumors these people are misleading the public they are in swatting the public. you know. i want to ask those who are pelting stones and sticks getting people to injure police trying to do the us what are you hoping to achieve the police is no one's enemy. the citizenship amendment act makes it easier for migrants from afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan who aren't muslim to become indian citizens critics say the law could lead to many muslims losing their citizenship. borders or matter how good the letter writer staging protests is all right they should not be violent so i oppose that whatever the police are doing i request them not to do it they should also listen also indians like you we are also humans. as protests continued on sunday in the capital and other parts of the country the

government insisted that law will not be repealed i protest has been ongoing since parliament passed a law earlier in december. i put a student protest and. university in the capital a week ago turned into a movement of hundreds of thousands of students and anti-government protesters nationwide people were angered after government forces fought with students and stormed the campus firing tear gas into the library and classrooms. i the worst violence has been in the british where more than 5000 people have been detained at least 1500 have been arrested in other parts of india. some muslims can get for the ship under the citizenship amendment act but it is feared millions who are unable to provide proof could be rendered stateless even if their families have lived in india but generations to be added

there are new delhi. a political party in pakistan has organized a protest in the capital against india's decision to step kashmir of its autonomy indeed administered kashmir was divided into 2 new federal terraces last month is the may has mobilized support of the past 2 weeks to highlight what it says is a forgotten a sheet for state of the kashmir economy is also a major concern for the party but correspondent says pakistanis nationwide have shown their solidarity with cash. drawn short of the border by the right wing. oh richard rohr. to board the paper local and out i gave here trotter did being meted out by the indian figurative for all and they're here they're finished $33.00 they are ready for the purpose of the rally is to highlight the atrocities being committed by india against the kashmiris and to draw the

world's attention to their plight and obviously a lot of the young if modi is not stopped it will become a problem for the minorities in india and will also have dangerous consequences for the world. of our day while good have come from all across the country. everywhere making sure our women and children there oh i did indeed have a passionate overread i know god my dad maybe 300 could come of the government all over the ballpark of this rally to shore the people of project on there about their kashmiri broader living on the other side of the line of joe why. the 3 month wait for the preliminary results from the presidential election in afghanistan chills president ashraf ghani has secured a slim majority the result of september was expected the following month but have only just arrived in a covert but it was only released by the independent election commission on sunday

coming secure just over 50 percent of the vote officials for his main rival abdullah abdullah say they don't accept those results the electoral commission says the final count could change. turkey's president says if necessary he'll increase military support to the internationally recognized government in libya where border and says he'll evaluate ground air and marine operations he's already raised the possibility of sending troops if libya requests them or do and also back the maritime boundaries deal signed with libya well that sangar greece which is exploring the mediterranean sea for oil and gas and the turkish government is disputing reports that forces loyal to warlord holly for have to have seized and searched a cargo ship of the libyan coast guard say the cargo was checked after the ship's captain requested help from libya's coast guard because of mechanical problems these 25000 civilians have reportedly fled serious in the province for the turkish

border as the syrian and russian forces intensify their bombardment of these 3 people have been killed in the latest air strikes so in troops are advancing on the country's last rebel held area mexico's dealing with its highest murder rate on record and the majority of firearms involved are being smuggled in from the united states violence across the border has been under increasing scrutiny after a number of u.s. citizens were murdered 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 of the hit men that end up using them. that shock to mexico the 17th of october 2019 the day this in a little cartel turned out like an army with a devastating great fire power they subjugated the mix kamila create self and took over the streets of coolie a kind that would be good this man says he was there fighting with the cartel we're talking about their weapons would most of the people they're in on the side of the

cartel with american guns that yes of course because all 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 going to support all 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 straw buyers and gun shop scene shows to get glocks a k 47 off fifteen's 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 on searching and they never search 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 to let myself up over the last year 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 to discuss those border security plans we didn't hear back. meanwhile

quantities of weapons continued to be brought across the 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 the cali. pasqualino anymore 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 they take them away they distributed throughout the country being caught with one should mean jail time but if the government is get stopped by local police there's a simple solution called remember why as they say here with money the drug dances sort it all out with cash and then we each coraline way i don't know you and you don't know me. the guns make their way to the cartel soldiers the same ones that battle to become it's going to thirty's and the 17th of october this confrontation between caught hell in the government. that wouldn't have happened if the single hadn't have this easy access to weapons. through

a process so yes it would have happen but obviously as you say it would have been hard for us without the number of weapons i mean we probably wouldn't have beaten them if it wasn't so easy to get hold of the guns. the mexican forces humiliation then and in direct consequence of leaving us gun regulations and this country's insufficient border security but there were other consequences to more intimate ones for the thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part to tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully 2 bombings in the southern philippines have killed more than a dozen people one bomb exploded in cults a bottle city killing at least 8 souls us and 4 civilians about same time 5 people died when another bomb exploded just north in the bunker and the philippines on forces says the bangsamoro islamic freedom fighters group could be behind those attacks. north korea says leader kim jong un has held

a meeting of the ruling party about strengthening the military state news has released these images though it's unclear when or where the new team took place north korea is threatening to take new measures if the u.s. doesn't submit a proposal on denuclearization by the end of the year cuba has appointed a prime minister for the 1st time in more than 40 years long serving tourism minister a man will moderate all took office on saturday the position of prime minister was last held by fidel castro in 1976 and reinstated under cuba's new constitution. still ahead here on out. 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. and we look at what's causing a record number of elderly people to commit suicide.

how the weather's lousy dry across much of china although we have got some bits and pieces of right jen we just to the south of shanghai that will be the case as we go on through the next couple of days shanghai itself at around 13 celsius south of that we getting up to 22 in hong kong with a similar conditions as we go on the 3 achieved if anything recent past china generally drying up you might just catch the just close northern parts of taiwan but that aside it is generally settled and sunny settled across a good path solve in the light winds across northern most parts well the fault in small problems returning to new delhi as you can say very murky conditions here and not read any sign of any great improvement as we go on through the next couple of days as i said the winds are light so it's not stirring up the air is not really going to help things any over the next couple of days 18 celsius then in new delhi

a similar temperatures we go on into choose day the cane the winds are down towards the south so northeasterly wind that's driving more showers back into sri lanka some of those heavy with a nice day to come out it could also see one of 2 showers a chill also wanted to share some light rain just around the southern end of the reagan peninsula but for many it's fine and try highs here in a pleasant $23.00. weeks stories generate found was sincere. these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison there's a me right stuff that became separate the spin from the fact that the western media jumps on stories we don't train them the misinformation from the journalism is about telling the stories there are those human beings out there with the listening post on al-jazeera.

they're watching out 0 mind of our top stories this hour in this prime minister is accusing his political opponents of feeling on rest over a controversial citizenship blog that critics say discriminates against missteps and render modi has also defended india's security forces in a speech at a big rally in new delhi. a political party in pakistan has organized a protest in the capital against india's decision to strip kashmir of its autonomy jamaat e islami has mobilized support over the past 2 weeks to highlight what it says is in forgotten. preliminary results from afghanistan's presidential election so

incumbent ashraf ghani has secured a slim majority officials for his main rival up till up to us say they don't accept the results. prime minister scott morrison has wrists turned to a string taking a family vacation as wildfires and the heat wave swept across the country is facing public i wage for being in hawaii as more than a 100 blazes were burning and has more. long been criticised for failing to directly link climate change to the bushfires in australia. but as 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 these weather events in these broader far events and the impacts go i believe 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. school 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 $800.00 homes it's devastating not knowing way your property standing on not unfortunately we have to save bad news is not much left to. some survivors say the sound of the fire terrified them the most as winds blue flames over mountains like a. river of fall i would cry try to think current you could hear the trees exploiting. where 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 now 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 inquiry right tyson lower temperatures have helped the fight but there's no rain forecast for the days ahead and temperatures will soon rise again enter schapelle al-jazeera. well brandon is the assistant chief officer of the size a strictly a fire service he spoke to us earlier from abilene he explains why the fires have been so catastrophic this year is a direct link between these fall as drought drop vegetation high fuel lloyd's and high temperatures but if you look across the sort of 100 year history of fall as in a straw you we have had these events before each state has had these events before i think what is very challenging for australia is these are events are appearing

much earlier in essays and well before christmas they're occurring right across the landscape from western australia and you south wiles' and they're also appearing at a time when the northern hemisphere is still experiencing fall and that mike's a difficult for by him his fees to manage what's known as the aerial firefighting flaked we rely heavily on large attract is an erickson hate crimes to come from the northern hemisphere traditionally by finished their fire season and they're available for us now is saying i think it's fees overlapping very. you know it can be conflicting and demanding times for a faucet of us is for us the will. polls close in the next hour in a spec astounds parliamentary election the last one was in 2016 this time though there has been a lot of changes a new electoral called will cause 30 percent of party candidates to be women and

people with a criminal record and not now allowed to vote or abdullah made reports from the capital tashkent. it's a show that at 1st done and then galvanized the country allows political debate unscripted and edited a 1st news because. there have been 29 others over the past 3 months where a wide range of topics were discussed often putting the candidates on the spot to the point that this party leader admitted it was big politicians lack courage bottom 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 your passion was 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 with similar platforms. there are no opposition or independent candidates running in this election but whose pakistan is only 28 years old it was formed after the fall of the soviet union in $9091.00 so regardless of this truth coming people are excited to go to the ballot boxes still for the 1st time the parties are somehow compete. against each other to win over voters since president stuff got me to say you know 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 very 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 billions of hope that day comes sooner rather than later

but at that hammy al-jazeera tashkent the news because that. fotis in croatia heading to the polls for presidential election 11 candidates are running to the incumbent leader kalinda grab a kids are of age opinion poll so that it could be a tight race between her and her main rivals. roman catholic religious order in mexico has admitted it's fun to sexually abuse dozens of boys including some he fathered secretly was living a double life father marcial messy ill continuously denied he was a paedophile until his death 11 years ago the legionnaires of crisis other priests abused 175 mexican boys for decades and is attempting to confront its past who dismissed the accusations but his success of pope benedict ordered mass sale to retire to a life of prayer and penitence donald trump's election promise to build a border wall with mexico is taking construction crews

a busy in arizona but environmentalists fear irreversible damage is being done to one of the most biologically diverse regions of the united states well reynolds says the story. 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 a wall construction threat these this pristine environment we've got endangered keoki dope up fish also known as this annoyed pup fish right here in the 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 is which is just a few 100 metres from the border. the barrier will block the normal migration routes of rare animal species like pool and 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 it's insane are nice guys 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 environmentalists have taken the administration to court in an effort to slow or halt construction but for now the wall marches relentlessly forward. robert oulds al-jazeera near solenoid mexico. prison guards in honduras have seize several guns following a riot would say dozens of inmates dead or injured at least 18 were killed in fighting between rival gangs in a jail in the caribbean coastal town of tayla the government's just announced the army will take control of the prison system. at least $26.00 chileans have been killed and thousands injured and arrested during 2 months of protests against poverty inequality and social injustice congress has approved raising pension

subsidies for the poor the many want a complete overhaul of one of the world's most controversial private pension systems or latin america edison they see in human reports from santiago. it's the holiday season and built them want to see nurses making a christmas cake but not for her family selling these cakes is just one of the many ways the 62 year old pensioner tries to make ends meet. she also fixes clothes like other pensioners who are low income neighborhood but at the has to keep working because after 35 years of factory work her monthly retirement check is $133.00 well below chile's poverty line of us talking about him on the same street there are 4 grandparents in their 83 and 3 still work the other is too ill and she lay retirements nothing to look forward to. who lives in an upper middle class area agrees she retired at the beginning of last year after working 37

years 1st as a nurse and then as a university professor with a master's degree she used to make nearly $2000.00 a month. with a look at them but when i went to do my retirement papers i discovered that i had a poppers pension i said is this a joke and i was told no madam it's like this for everyone the $300.00 i am getting isn't even enough to pay for my health insurance. nothing infuriates chileans of all walks of life more than their compulsory private retirement system or a.f.p. it was created under chile's military dictatorship and was supposed to guarantee pensions equivalent to 70 percent of one's last paycheck. stead 10 to 20 percent is the average with good reason the a.f.p.'s are the number one target of millions of protesters from. chilis pension funds make massive profits which are

not redistributed to the contributors even as pensions drop would get them all to one of the 4 years and you know this model was designed with the objective to transfer the worker savings to capital markets like banks the big retailers etc and that's helped create large economic groups that have concentrated wealth in a few hands as never before and worst of all it's forced millions of chileans to live in misery. in chile the suicide rate for elderly people has soared and one of the prime reasons is because they no longer have enough money with which to survive amid all the protests the government has actually raised the state pension subsidy but even after doubling that subsidy for people over the age of 80 it is still nowhere near a minimum wage at a time in life when people have greater expenses for medicine and for doctors. the government's offer to partially compensate for the a.f.p.

shortcomings with taxpayers' money has only added more fuel to the fire and it's unlikely to be put out without a major overhaul of the pension system that only seems to be benefiting those who don't pay for it to see a newman out just sita santiago. this is out of his ear and these are your top stories india's prime minister is accusing his political opponents of fuelling unrest over a controversial citizenship law that critics say discriminates against muslims the renderer modi has also defended india's security forces in a speech to supporters at a b j p rally in new delhi rice could safely say using disproportionate force on protest has at least 25 people have been killed so been a stressed or has more now from new delhi. i'm right outside edge i mean i mean it's like me you were street where some of the 1st protests started i didn't feel

like it is 2 different countries that one. could rally that mr modi is in versus the rallies that are like that here and in some of the other parts of the country over here there are a lot of students where of the constitution of india they're talking about the constitution of india they're talking about secularism and equality within the constitution and how it is imperative i was just saved there i had to kind of ensure that the integrity on which this nation was built and is in it. has kept intact. a political party in pakistan has organized a protest in the capital against india's decision to strip kashmir of its autonomy indian administered kashmir was divided into 2 new federal territories last month islam has mobilized support over the past 2 weeks to highlight what it says is a forgotten issue the poor state of the kashmir economy is also

a major concern for the party a 3 month wait for the results of the presidential election in afghanistan shows president ashraf ghani has secured a slim majority just over 50 percent of the vote supporters of his main rival of de la bella say they don't accept the result the electoral commission says the final come from the clerics in september could change. turkey's president says he'll increase military support to the internationally recognized government in libya if necessary wage a tie aboard and says he'll evaluate ground air and marine options he's already raised the possibility of sending troops if libya requests them he's also backed the maritime boundaries deal that he was simply signed with libya those are your current headlines you are firmly up to date the news continues here on i'll just after listening post thanks for your company. on counting the cost especially on investing in the burgeoning markets from the doha for of right here in castle how foreign direct investment is reshaping the global economy and what that means for

the future that and the globalization of populist sense of. counting the cost on al-jazeera. hello i'm richard gaisford and you're at the listening post on this program we track the global news media examined dominant narratives and spend more time critiquing journalism and celebrating it were not an award show but to mark the end of 2019 we wanted to examine a few cases where quality reporting the kind that speaks truth to power exposes wrongdoing and helps rectify it has made an impact taking just 4 examples was not easy we wanted to get across geographies different kinds of stories various forms of media we settled on west africa and a documentary exposing sexual harassment on university campuses hong kong 1st person videos kept.