with. force to birth control and threats of detention china is accused of trying to curb the we know population. how again i missed on detail and this is out of their life from our well headquarters here in doha also coming up donald trump is amusing top congressional republicans as he struggles to explain reports that russia paid taliban fighters to kill u.s. soldiers. a fake job for his wife and the misuse of public money former french prime minister francois feel gets

a prison sentence for 40. plus hungry and trying to stay warm seasonal workers stuck in chile as winter bites and the coronavirus stops them from going home. china is being accused of forcing weak a woman into pregnancy checks sterilization or abortion in a bid to slash breath rates an investigation by the associated press has found evidence of a 4 year campaign in the western provinces china's government denies the allegations saying they're not based on facts and that brian reports. google always asks a she'll never forget the day chinese authorities told her her 3rd child was illegal she says she was threatened told to pay a fine of more than $2.00 and a half $1000.00 should be locked up in an internment camp some american if they

give shots and remove fetuses forcefully if they say it's illegal to make you get an abortion those who didn't obey were sent to the camps now people they're terrified of giving birth. the associated press investigation is based on government statistics documents and interviews with women like gold now who say they knew people jailed for having too many children many received a prison sentence of years even decades government efforts to reduce birth rates and shinji young are both systematic and ruthless we're talking the mass forced insertion of intra year to run contraceptive devices we're talking threats of internment for those who violate birth control policies. zain says the brutal crackdown is part of government efforts to control the way to get people many of whom a muslim to purge them of their faith and identity. the investigation found the government had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on birth control and shin jang province

in northwest china birthrights their decreased by about 24 percent last year compared with 4 percent nationwide but. they want to eliminate us but they can't kill all of us it's not possible because the world is watching so they're doing it step by step with policies like sterilization imprisonment or separating men and women and making them work as forced laborers china says the camps are for reeducation part of what it calls a struggle against terrorism but rights groups accuse beijing of locking up more than a 1000000 people to brainwash and punish them those not detained us spied on. her neighborhood felt like an open air prison she tells how she was forcibly sterilized along with about 200 other we go women. we lost a part of our body we lost our identity as women we will never be able to have

children again some women say they've been left with long term injuries a reminder of everything they've lost brian al-jazeera. correspondent katrina beijing and she says the policy as described in this associated press report lunch hasa the law is applied to the majority hung ethnic or. now it is true that hand women have since been subject to the same fines if they have more than 2 children but they are certainly not born into any detention camps or subject to any sort of forced abortions or forced sterilizations as we've seen nor is it in this associated press report conversely hand women actually around the country have been encouraged to have a 2nd child because of worryingly lower birth rates across china now we also know that. people who are members of the weak a community have been strongly encourage not to marry other week but into the hand majority analysts say that this is another long term policy to dilute the

population of the weaker population it does appear that that would be working we know in 1949 according to official figures 90 percent of the population john were weak as in 2018 only 47 percent were weak as now china's foreign ministry today on monday responded to this report essentially calling the associated press report fake news it has always maintained that its policies in a national security issue was designed to prevent terrorism and extremism and separatism that they're in response to very violent knife and bomb attacks in recent decades but as we heard just then many human rights groups disagree saying that many of these measures are based on race and religion and not only do they said up to 1000000 people are held in these detention camps which the government by the way calls for occasional training centers they say that many of these policies are designed to also erode the muslim week of religion and culture as well as put

them under very strict almost suffocating levels of surveillance. now iran has issued an arrest warrant for donald trump over the assassination of military command accustomed samani the u.s. president as one of $36.00 people that it's meant to adjourn to january's star and strike that killed sort of money baghdad airport in iraq iran wants interpol to issue a wanted notice requesting its members detain those on that list the u.s. says sort of money was planning to attack its diplomats and military across the middle east our assessment is that interpol does not intervene and issue red notices that are based on political nature. and this is a political nature ringback this has nothing to do with national security international peace or promoting stability and so we see it for what it is it's a 'd propaganda stunt that no one takes seriously and makes the iranians look

foolish well the u.s. president is meeting top congressional republicans to address reports that russia paid taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan donald trump says the intelligence briefings 1st revealed by the new york times never reached him because the agencies didn't think they were credible the white house has not denied that the briefings were prepared house speaker nancy pelosi accuses trump of siding with russia's president vladimir putin let's get more on this from our white house correspondent can be how this can be is this briefing that we're seeing today the president trying to do damage control here. well this is the white house responding to demands by congressional members for answers about who knew what when and whether or not it is necessary to hold the russian president vladimir putin accountable that white house press secretary kelly back in 80 has been speaking this morning she says that these reports are based on false reporting not

of this unnamed sources and there is no place for leaking this type of classified information but that does not seem to be satisfactory to not only members of congress on the democratic side but also republicans as well who are demanding answers that's why this briefing is being held here at the white house but we also know that there is a demand by house democrats to have all members of the house of representatives brief with an intra agency briefing that would be the cia as well as the director of national intelligence to supply the answers that members are looking for now in the midst of all of this the u.s. president has maintained that he was never briefed on this so he didn't know therefore he couldn't act he essentially said that it was deemed that this intelligence was not credible and that's why it was not forwarded to him to act on who can believe and say there are also reports that these alleged bounties did

actually result in the deaths of u.s. troops according to u.s. military interrogations so just how verifiable is all of this. the problem is with intelligence it is very difficult as a member of the ordinary public or the 48 t.v. here at the white house to get accurate information because the nature of intelligence is classified you have to remember the white house does defend itself these are anonymous sources that are providing this information at the same time this information did tip off intelligence sources in the field when they discovered after they did a raid on a taliban linked operating base that in fact they found very large amounts of cash and this is what sort of pain to interest in all of this and that was for their proper added as you pointed out by those interrogations done by military intelligence so once again there are a lot of questions in fact more questions than answers answers that the white house promises to provide not only to members of congress and their briefing but also the

white house press corps coming up in the next hour and we want to that very closely indeed it can be held at the white house correspondent thank you candy now the u.s. supreme court has struck down a new easy on an oil that put restrictions on doctors who perform abortions and so who is found ruling on abortion since president trump appointed 2 conservative justices mike hanna is in washington d.c. and he explains the significance of this ruling. well it has a massive impact on a century the louisiana law made ensure that doctors would have to have visiting rights to a local hospital in effect what it meant is that all the clinics that were helping women would have to shut down in effect it would then undercut the decades long right of women to choose which is entrenched in u.s. constitutional law so this is basically thrown that out of court it has preserved the basis of woman's right to choose within law now that

a number of significant matters about this firstly that the swing voter has a 54 decision was made by the chief justice john roberts now very significantly 4 years ago there was a virtually identical case before the supreme court roberts voted in favor of the case in other words that the physician should have been sitting right he reversed his decision in this case giving that majority for one very important reason that he believed he had to follow the precedent of a decision taken by the court before what this means is that in the future when you have got such a. department divided case the chief justice is going to go with precedent very significant now former french prime minister francois fillon has been given a 5 year prison sentence for fraud and court in paris found him guilty of misusing public funds and embezzlement for setting up fake jobs for his wife and their children she received more than a $1000000.00 and has also been convicted as an accomplice our correspondent is in

paris with more details on that verdict. closing expected in his march as prosecutors have actually requested a 5 year sentence for false often yall with 3 years suspended 3 is suspended for his wife penelope as well in the court obviously went without saying the handed down that verdict to the couple now the couple have left the courts their lawyers say this trial was unfair it was a sham that fossil feel was the victim of a political smear campaign that they now have 10 days to appeal they've made it very clear that they will do that now the cool found for us all feel guilty of fraud because back in 2017 allegations surfaced the false or feel had paid his wife and then the pay for several years hundreds of thousands of dollars for a job as a parliamentary systems however the court found that there was not a shred of evidence to really support that she did any work for fiona feel as it

was said that penelope helped with things like correspondence e-mails for his constituency and help correct his speeches but it seems that the job judge judges here at this periscope with katie just not convinced also ahead fear here on al-jazeera to fairies collide in bangladesh we have the latest on the sounds from the survivors and fueling debate why protesters are out on india's streets defying lockdown restrictions. that are already widespread floods along the the line that is really in china haven't seen a reporter in the korean peninsula in japan but this is a seasonal rain and once more we've got a decent development in charge it stretches back to your non and eventually the

indian border but the this side of the eastern side has just brought some significant rain through japan and this is the for. costa tuesday it will just be leaving the korean peninsula taking significant weather wet through honshu including tokyo exists a good half of wednesday as well the chinese end is drifting study science here but going north towards sichuan doesn't reach anywhere further north just yet has been up that funnels have been beyond shanghai but we've gone south again there is some ray of beijing the temp is still hanging on $33.00 that would be well humid position now given what's happening with the seasonal rains there's a bit of a gap and then you got the next line a significant rise through the south china sea vietnam northern part of the philippines quite a good scattering of shasta south as well scattered environment magic otter should be dry wouldn't guarantee that for kuala lumpur i have to say course the main rain is following the monsoon trough out through india bangladesh and pakistan lesser pakistan more bangladesh and eastern india.

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hello again you're watching out of there that's reminder of our top stories this hour china is being accused of forcing the wigan minority to lower their birth rates an investigation by the associated press says hundreds of thousands of women are forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortions. the u.s. president is meeting top congressional republicans to address reports that russia paid the taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan donald trump says the intelligence briefings 1st revealed by the new york times never reached him. and the u.s. supreme court has upheld a woman's constitutional right to choose striking down a law in the state of louisiana that restricted doctors from performing abortions and the courts 1st ruling on abortion sense president appointed to conservative justices. now a gun and grenade attack at the karate stock exchange in pakistan has killed 9 people including security guards and all 4 attackers separatist fighters called the

bailout liberation army are claiming responsibility sorry kyra has. gone back to libya and she's of pakistan stock exchange in her own she security forces fly back into tackles he detonates a grenade as they try to do mean a killed being able to reach the main building. of the. destructor to believe the law enforcement agency is the pollution but it just played a very very large a role in combating this. despite the guns. outside brokers huddled together inside and trading continued they did try to. influence the market with

a negative impact but nothing happened we are confident and nothing is going to happen in the future as the separatists baluchi liberation army will be away armed group has claimed responsibility for the attack ethnic baluch groups have to use food for independence from pakistan and accuse its as well as china rig splits in baluchistan resources 2 years ago to be a attack the chinese consulate in karachi pakistan the u.s. and u.k. have all listed it a terrorist group a major general in pakistan's paramilitary force into the indian interference. details with you after the investigation but i can say this straight away that this terrorist attack is not possible without the support of a strong intelligence agency and at the top of the list as india's foreign intelligence. with dozens of hand grenades and ammunition found at the scene heavily armed security forces believe they stopped the attackers from inflicting

more damage in pakistan's largest stock exchange it seem of government forensic experts who started collecting evidence at the scene and searched a coed used by the gunman. at al-jazeera had $23.00 civilians have been killed in afghanistan after rockets fell on a catalogue at in southern helmand province and all happened near the town of sunken children are among the dead the government is blaming the taliban. tribal leaders in libya pledging to end a blockade on oil output exporting tamils in the central coastal region have been under a blockade by forces loyal to one of the have to since january has thought to have cost the country nearly $6000000000.00 talks are being held to decide how and when the national oil corporation can restart production and exports. rescue teams in bangladesh still such infant dozens of people off to 2 ferries collided on a river near the capital dhaka one of the boats with woman 100 passengers on board

and sank rescue workers have so far recovered the bodies of 2 people our correspondent is near the scene of that collision and. right behind me is where the rescue operation is going on there's a concentration of both a lot of people i spoke to left an income under all of the coast guard he told me until and unless the salvage the boat they will know the exactly number of people dead so far we know that reported by the coast guard is 30 people. bodies have been recovered it's an ongoing operation and it's probably continue to build evening even to. boat one larger one carrying passenger and smaller one. collided in the morning around 930 local time the bigger boat scraped any kind of damage or nobody was injured but the smaller boats and that's where the tragedy took place we do know this sort of incident happens in bangladesh quite often

despite the government promised that they'll crack down on but so far we have seen that the owners of the boat carry over load a lot of passengers are even during stormy weather is that on a bike by a lot of the rules this is a 6000 inland waterways as you can see this is one of the busiest inland river boat it's called shoulder got a lot of passengers aboard. for other part of the country. health workers in india have reported the biggest single day increase in corona virus infections several states reimposing full or partial lockdowns with nearly 20000 new cases more than half a 1000000 indians have now been infected and some states are saying they're increasing testing. well the rapidly rising cost of petrol and diesel in india has sparked protests in many cities the government says it's increased fuel taxes to offset the

economic crisis caused by the pandemic lock down and as about the per annum reports from new delhi. a horse powered protest against the rising price a few members of india's main opposition congress party rallied in the capital are you right now crude oil prices are low globally the government is indulging in profiteering and in this time with trying to make when people don't have money employment or business these people are being burdened with high fuel prices. with restrictions on gathering still in force to stop the spread of the coronavirus police officers quickly dragged protesters away the kicking and screaming because of the near daily rise in fuel prices over the past 3 weeks was similar protests were held around the country in the cities of bengal. and lucky now against the highest fuel prices in nearly 2 years and you already had some of the highest fuel taxes in the world but with this is increases drivers are paying around 260 percent

tax on petrol and diesel critics say the government should pass on the benefits of low oil prices rather than raising taxes to keep prices high. the president of one of delhi's biggest taxi union says most of the state's 200000 drivers haven't worked for most of this year he says higher taxi fares are another deterrent to customers afraid of venturing out during the pandemic. even before the pandemic in january work was hard to come by as international tourists would stop visiting india then we were in lockdown for nearly 3 months now restrictions are being eased but since diesel prices have risen so much people are not taking taxis. higher transportation costs also means food is more expensive i'll give you another one it has hard a major impact the increase of 15 cents. costing us $3000.00 but it was before that $0.15 makes a big difference fruits and vegetables are more expensive there are fewer drugs

coming. the government says it needs to raise taxes to generate revenue because of the economic crisis of one of the world's trip to. the congress party to ask president to reverse the fuel price rises as protesters accuse the government of making many lives even harder at the worst of times elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi . well thousands of foreign fruit pickers are in limbo in chile because their savings are gone and borders remain closed many of them from bolivia which doesn't have full diplomatic ties because of a long running territorial dispute with its neighbor now in the 3rd part of our series on people who've been stranded by this pandemic our latin america terrorists in yemen reports from santiago. some have traveled thousands of kilometers from southern chile to get to this school in santiago to be a refuge for stranded bolivians here they're given a mattress and blankets and assigned

a classroom where they join the others here mostly seasonal workers who come to chile each year to pick fruit from october to march when summer ends but now it's winter it's raining and cold and like the rest the government's family hasn't been able to leave home and that in the. bolivia close the borders and declared a quarantine they didn't let buses or anyone cross not even asked bolivians put 3 months they camped outside of their poncelet asking for help but just like thousands of the cuban colombian and peruvian migrants stranded in chile they've had to depend on charity now that their savings are gone. we have mattresses food and a roof over our heads but no thanks to the bolivian government it's abandon us that's what hurts the most modern i mean we were working in southern chile but they declare lockdowns there too so we had to come here we don't know when we can go

home. 3 women have given birth while waiting to return to bolivia. 4 others are pregnant the 300 people here have been told the following dinner no one else will be able to enter after that the plan is to put this whole school under quarantine so that everybody who's in here can be guaranteed to be called with free after 14 days then they will be taken by the. last of the border with bolivia but at this point there is absolutely no guarantee that authorities there well open the borders to allow these people to go back home. in the last month they've in fact allowed 2000 bolivians who've undergone certified quarantines to reenter but with the number of coronavirus cases in chile now one of the world's highest many countries are understandably less eager to speed up repatriations all this while the number of people stranded here grows but. there is a permanent flow of people we're only just beginning to see the economic effects of

this pandemic on migrants and temporary workers. for many who wait isn't the worst part it's the feeling of being trapped and the fear of not knowing if the virus might take their lives or dose of family members back in bolivia before they can make it home to see newman al-jazeera santiago. well in the next part of the special series we spoke to cuban life ends who are trapped in mexico or who are helping other travellers that sanchia say hair is there. the senate says and mississippi has voted to replace the u.s. states flag the last in the nation to display the confederate battle emblem the bill now goes to the republican governor to be signed into law how many see the design as racist because of its links to slavery that relies on the reports of a contentious flag that symbolized america's past connection with slavery soon to be gone. lawmakers in mississippi voted overwhelmingly to remove the state flag

126 years after it was adopted the last of its kind in the us to carry this symbol of the confederate states that fought and lost the civil war to maintain slavery in america if you want to be on the right side of the free market and i'm proud that i've personally care sure today and i'm sure the credibility individuals came out shocked to hear such saying but. for many the confederate flag symbolizes hate my parents and grandparents experienced much terrorism and tyranny under that flag as a younger mississippi and a millennial it represents the darker days of our state when our state government and various others used it as a symbol of supremacy. others argue getting rid of the flag is an other attempt to wipe out america's history people change here to take my.

place. take your last season. in 2001 mississippi voters decided by a 2 to one margin to keep the flag is the official state emblem but times have changed. with the death of george floyd in may sparking nationwide civil rights protests highlighting racial inequalities a renewed called a change to flag this time it was successful. but a new flag is just a 1st step in achieving racial justice argue more is needed in a state where 31 percent of blacks live in poverty compared to 12 percent of whites the flag of the symbol. it will lead you to travel to and i think daily and most african-americans in this state face so that is a plus. for the steps. we have to see these policies that are

punitive and only right now we have to get rid of those policies so that we can have. you know. a 9 person commission will oversee a new state flag design voters will approve or reject it on the ballot in november gabriel's oddo i'll just. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines china is being accused of forcing the weak of minorities hello at their best rates an investigation by the associated press says hundreds of thousands of one and forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortions the u.s. president is meeting top congressional republicans to address reports that russia paid taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan donald trump says

the intelligence briefings fast revealed by the new york times never reached him. and the u.s. supreme court has upheld a woman's constitutional right to choose striking down a law in the state of louisiana that restricted doctors from performing abortions and supports fast forwarding on abortions since president trump appointed 2 conservative justices michaela has the latest on that from washington d.c. . it has a massive impact on it essentially the louisiana law made sure that doctors would have to have visiting rights to a local hospital in effect what it meant is that all the clinics that were helping women would have to shut down in effect it would then undercut the decades long right of women to choose which is entrenched in us constitutional law so this is basically throw that out of court it has preserved the basis of woman's right to choose with the law former french prime minister francois feel has been given

a 5 year prison sentence for fraud he was found guilty of misusing public funds and embezzlement for setting up fake jobs for his wife and their children she received more than a $1000000.00 and has also been convicted as an accomplice rescue teams in bangladesh searching for dozens still missing after 2 ferries collided on a river near the capital dhaka one of the boat sank with more than 100 passengers on board 32 bodies have been recovered. the rapidly rising cost of petrol and diesel in india has sparked protests in several cities prices at the pumps of increased almost daily for the past $3.00 weeks the government says it's increased fuel taxes to offset the economic crisis caused by the knock down to contain the coronavirus well those are the headlines now it's counting the cost.

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