going extinct every 24 hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking we want on al-jazeera play an important role. ringback forced birth control and threats of detention china is accused of trying to curb the weaker population. but again i missed and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up donald trump is meeting top congressional republicans as he struggles to explain reports that russia paid taliban fighters to kill american soldiers. a fake job for his

wife and the misuse of public money former french prime minister francois fionn gets a prison sentence for 4. sacred african art is going under the hammer but historians say should be returned not so. now china is being accused of forcing weak a woman into pregnancy checks sterilization or abortion in a bid to slash birthrates an investigation by the associated press has found evidence of a 4 year campaign and northwestern provinces china's government denies the allegations saying they're not based on facts alexia bryan reports. 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 and a half. $1000.00 should be locked up in an internment camp. that's why 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 there are terrified of giving birth. the associated press investigation is based on government statistics documents and interviews with women like girl 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 you're to run contraceptive devices we're talking threats of internment for those who are violent 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

and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on birth control and shin jang province in northwest china birthrights there decreased by about 24 percent last year compared with 4 percent nationwide but i hope. that i'm as 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 labor as 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. says 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 bit of a reminder of everything they've lost brian al jazeera. when our correspondent katrina year is in the capital beijing she says the policies described in this association press reports are much harsher than there is applied to the majority han ethnic group. 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 the weaker population does appear that that would be working we know in 1949 according to official figures 90 percent of the population in sion 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 say that 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 a custom ceremony the u.s. president is one of $36.00 people it's linked to january's drone strike that killed so many near baghdad airport in iraq iran wants interpol to issue a wanted notice requesting that its members detain those on the list the u.s. says ceremony was planning to attack its diplomats and military across the middle east are assessment is that interpol does not intervene and issue red notices that are based on political nature and this is a political nature 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 propaganda stunt that no one takes seriously and makes the iranians look foolish while today the u.s. president is meeting top congressional republicans to address reports that russia paid to taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan don't trump says the intelligence briefings that were 1st revealed by the new york times never reached him because the agencies didn't think they were credible and the white house has not denied that the briefings were prepared house speaker nancy pelosi accuses trump of siding with russia's president that i'm a person who we can all speak to rina shot she is a conservative commentator at relax strategies a little consulting firm and she joins us now on skype from reston in virginia rena great to have you back on al-jazeera i want to start with this republican briefing today is the president trying to do damage control right now within his own party. you know i don't think the president is even at that step yet i think he is right

now. figuring out how to cover up for a result and it's very clear to me and it is my professional opinion that the president is lying he says the teligent was not given to him by the intelligence community because they did not deem it credible this is the same intelligence community our american intelligence that the president she'd at least cannot be trusted works against it looks very rich actually that he is now saying that they are the reason that he was not informed and he has a lot of questions to answer he has many a republican on capitol hill right now scratching their heads want to real answers from the white house about whether this information. was in his presidential daily briefing whether he and the vice president were briefed and he say no they were not and who knew and when to their most importantly very very he said how we can uphold hooten accountable and even more important who is protecting american

soldiers right now these are the questions will have for him these are the exact questions that were vice president dick cheney's daughter who is receiving the congressman from wyoming a republican has to the way. it isn't just republicans who are scratching their heads on capitol hill i see senate democrats are now also demanding a briefing on surprising me as you say there are so many questions that need answering here is the white house or the president obliged to give one. a look that is you know something we should look at history for these past few years this president has felt himself more important and more our pool then he will branch it we have 3 branches of government here that are coup equal in nature and the fact is this president does not see it as so since he doesn't feel the need to answer these tough questions from our elected representatives he is going to push back as hard as ever because this is

a massive scandal what is being said is far greater in magnitude than the crazy scandal which looked to be out right from the beginning but this is really really large because it's treasonous it was just earlier this month that the president stood in front of our west point cadets those graduates wound knowing potentially and i think it's true that there was a bounty on their heads. trump's raghad 5 out of prison is nothing new so what happens next to just how far can this fallout go. you know we have a very noisy yes i go here we have a we have constant distractions whether you're looking at the protests against or plenty of democrats excusing democratic presidential contender former v.p. joe biden of paying for the bails arsonist of looters and we've got that going on john bolton's book we've got some now our oh so many to him to be leaking out of

the white house the president propping up the white supremacy is there is a noise here i will not be surprised if this were argued in a court of public opinion as the president likes to do and say this is a select group of people who have not me where this and therefore he is not at all renay and you're a former republican strategist yourself how would you play this given the enormity of the scandal. well look this is a tough one for any republican running anywhere in the country particularly at the congressional level it is really hard to see this for what it is because when you can look in national committee. basically says that the president is our leader he is somebody that should not be question if you are not in lockstep with the shops and this trumpet ministry share then you have no business calling yourself

a republican candidate who wants to even criticize the scandal. that's what cost the lives cheney she just asking the question she's not issue a direct harsh question. directed at representative surely this is what i'm seeing in already today in the near 2020. 3 meter and. a rare so it makes it extremely difficult for any candidate to even be. how they me feel about the situation in fact it beats it raises all the more tucker it should not be. a conservative commentator speaking to us from virginia always great to get your thoughts here on out of their arena thank you for joining us thank you now former french prime minister france while failing has been given a 5 year prison sentence for a fraud a court in paris found him guilty of misusing public funds and embezzlement for

setting up fake jobs for his wife and their children now she received more than a $1000000.00 and has also been convicted as an accomplice correspond on the tax about that is in paris with more detail on that verdict. closing expected in his march as prosecutors had actually requested a 5 year sentence for for also offer you all with 3 years suspended 3 a 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 court 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 feel had paid his wife and then the 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 feel and i feel has always 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 were clearly just not convinced now the u.s. supreme court has struck down in louisiana a law that put restrictions on doctors who perform abortions and the courts fast 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 centrally 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 has basically thrown that out of court it has preserved the basis of the woman's right to choose within law now that a number of significant matters about this firstly that the swing vote it was 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 that case in other words that a physician should have visitation rights he reversed his decision in this case giving that pliable 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 cunt depok need to bided case the chief justice is going to go with precedent very significant while still ahead here here on out there to ferry collide in

bangladesh we have the latest on the search for more survivors. how the somalis we think that's a northerly breeze that comes out of iraq because of the gulf bring some dust with a cloud you can't see very much the 7 afghanistan there ought to be some buildings right in the coast. the edge effects the monsoon actually she's just coming in just as caught in the shamar which is now weakening sure. is anywhere from iraq down through the gulf now at the moment with the breeze just about any existence it bring its size but it dies away altogether so that's going to be settling dust in the environment and look at the house temperature down to $36.00 no preventing breeze except off the water that will be humid tunnel when countries around the gulf get down below 40 this time of year is used to he would stick it on pleasant

not so 3 most of north africa is mostly dry and dusty of course and the picture here the significant one has been the big shower they come through in clumps and here's one in chad so be on its way west through nigeria you see flooding recently in guyana and in sierra leone because of the showers and there are more to come as you can see that this rain belt is normally draw at this time the year there is some stormy stuff occasionally just been some go into the western gulf and that breezy weather is for the eastern gulf on its way to mozambique. frank assessments tourism but the income stream is dead in the water what's been the result seen perching quite significantly informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal in israeli society in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's time for diplomacy in

a country that is not only disintegrating but he's threatening the stability of the whole continues inside story on al-jazeera. the. you are watching out of there let's remind you of our top stories this hour china is being accused of forcing the weak of minorities 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 to 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 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. rescue teams in bangladesh chingford dozens who are still missing after 2 ferries collided on a river near the capital one of the boats with more than 100 passengers on board and sank rescue workers have so far recovered the bodies of 32 people our correspondent chattery is near the scene of that accident and dhaka. 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 this coast guard he told me until i left the salvage the boat there were no 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 at nightfall. 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 boat sank and that's where the tragedy took place we do know this sort of incident happens in bangladesh quite often despite the government promises of that bill crack down on but so far we have seen that the owners of the boat carry over loaded a lot of passenger even during stormy weather is that on a bike by a lot of medication rules this is a 6000 inland waterways as you can see this is one of the busiest inland riverport it's called shoulder got a lot of passengers aboard goes to and fro from other part of the country at least

$23.00 civilians have been killed in afghanistan off to rockets fell on a cattle market in southern helmand province it happened near the town of sunken and children are among the dead the government is blaming the taliban. tribal leaders in libya pledging to end a blockade on oil output exporting tunnels in the central coastal region had been under a blockade by forces loyal to warrant khalifa haftar since january and still to have cost the country nearly $6000000000.00 talks to decide how and when the national oil corporation can respond production and exports. now the head of the world health organization has warned that the covert 900 pandemic is far from under control we all want this to be over we all want to get on with our lives but the hard reality

is this is not even close to being over although many countries have made some progress globally the pandemic is actually speeding up well that warning comes as health workers and india reported the biggest single day increase in corona virus infections several states are reimposing full or partial lockdowns but the 20000 new cases more than half a 1000000 indians have now been infected some states say they'll increase testing to seek chettri is a medical doctor at calcutta rescue that's an ngo providing medical services for disadvantaged people in west bengal and she says the only way that india can fight this fire is is by increasing its testing capacity. before the crisis also our economic graph of the country was not very promising and now after the long don't

it has almost become like a hunger vs health for us so i don't i don't see us as a country combating and containing the virus anytime soon what we have to do is maybe learn to live with it in a safe manner that is the best approach i think just yesterday we did more than one laxity 1000 tests so you don't really have the rampant increase the number of chances in almost all the states of the country and that is going to be a strategy henceforth also what we have been focusing on is to increase the testing as much as possible so that even the is symptomatic carriers can be traced and we can catch the disease at this you know incipient stage when our kazakstan is considering reimposing lockdown following a sharp rise in corona virus infections there in the past month government ministers are drafting new measures to curb the spread they include doubling the number of available hospital beds and deploying mobile labs for widespread testing

. well in chile thousands of foreign fruit pickers are in limbo because their savings are gone and borders remain closed many of them are from bolivia which doesn't have full diplomatic ties because of a long running territorial dispute with its neighbor in the 3rd part of our series on people who've been left stranded by this pandemic latin america editor listing in reports from santiago. some have traveled thousands of kilometers from southern chile to get to this school in santiago to date a refuge for stranded bolivians here they're given a mattress and blankets and assigned a classroom where they join the others. 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 but 3 months they camped outside 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 that 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 bus. 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 re enter 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 and in the next part of their

special series will be speaking to cuban migrants trapped in mexico who are also helping to care for other travelers that's on shoes day here on out of there. now 2 of the world's biggest auction houses are coming under fire for their sale of african artifacts 2 statues from nigeria are among dozens of items on offer at christie's in paris later they are valued at more than $280000.00 but several nigerian art historians say the pieces shouldn't be sold at all alleging they were loose during the biafran civil war in the 1960 s. which christie's denies well saw the bees in new york is also holding several sales from choose to and looting this bronze statue from gabon and thought to be worth up to $4000000.00 there's been growing pressure for artifacts to be returned to their countries of origin and the issue has been highlighted by recent black lives matter protesters chico ok kara who is a professor in african american diaspora art history and he says the truth about

these artifacts needs to be told and negotiations started to see them returned the car in order. and as we all know nation and societies value the. examples of the great art and cultures of their ancestors of previous generations and so to have the. set of objects that were stolen from eastern nigeria during the civil war. in 67 to 70 to have them up for sale when we should be discussing the terms for their return because they were stolen because they were illegally taking out of nigeria that's the reason i started to call for the asian but especially for now and for not going ahead with

the sale of these objects there are immediate things that can be done which has already begun and that includes asking public collections of these objects to recognize the true provenance because right now in the museums that happened for instance there's no mention of the fact that they came out of is then they joined during the war and so the media thing that needs to happen is to recognise the true histories of these objects that are in western collections and then the next stage would be to enter into negotiations with the people who have them the private and public collections that have them about the average town and that would take the guise of gentlemanly if you will a civil negotiation it might include court proceedings because there

exportation from names you know where illegal at the time that they were taking it's not realistic to think that every single african art and cultural heritage outside of the cunt. you know i can't be returned but at least they're out what i call the law hanging fruit in other words objects that have well documented histories and our great cultural and artistic significance we should start with. hello there this is al jazeera and these are the headlines 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 to taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan donald trump says the intelligence briefings fast revealed by the new york times never reached him 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 fast ruling on abortion since president trump appointed 2 conservative justices mike hanna has all the latest from washington d.c. . it has a massive impact on a centrally 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 u.s. constitutional law so this is basically throw that out of court it has preserved the basis of woman's right to choose within 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 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 so far an attack on pakistan's stock exchanges ended with at least 9 people killed security forces stopped the attackers before they could take control of the building and corrupt chain health workers in india have reported the biggest single day increase in corona virus infections several states a reimposing full partial lockdown because of nearly 20000 new cases well those are the headlines i'll have more news for you after inside story.

how should u.s. police forces be reformed as protests against police brutality go on so to calls to cut funding even abolishing law enforcement agencies but is that the political will for genuine change this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on iran come on the killing of george floyd last

month the triggered protests across the u.s. and elsewhere against police brutality the 4 minneapolis officers who arrested the 46 year old black american a back in court.