we're the exception. joining us from new york 1st special coverage of the 75th united nations general assembly. on al-jazeera. india and china agreed to ease tensions at their disputed border and nearly 3 months after the biggest military confrontation in decades. are there i'm stars here and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up violent protests in colombia's capital following the death of a man repeatedly tasered by police 9 people have been killed. half a 1000000 people ordered from their homes in the u.s. state of oregon as wildfires continue to burn through forests and towns along the

west coast. and disney's new film rely on faces calls for a boycott and control the sea over links to. as its released in mainland china. india and china have reached an agreement on deescalation tensions along their disputed border nearly 3 months after the biggest a military confrontation between the 2 sides in the last 45 years foreign ministers from both countries have been holding talks in moscow the 5 point plan is centered around honoring existing border agreements 20 indian troops were killed in hand to hand combat in june in the border area of the northern the dak region which china also claims both sides are prohibited from using arms there under a treaty well for more on this let's speak to my whole crew woman he's the deputy

director and senior associate for south asia at the wilson center is asia program he joins us now from washington d.c. michael we knew these talks were happening did the extend of today's deal come as a surprise to you i think there's actually no timeline for implementation here. well i think we should be very cautiously optimistic about this at this meeting but it sounds like these talks between the 2 foreign ministers resulted in the agreement simply to keep talking and that's good of course you know as the saying goes jonjo is better than war war but the promise of the 2 sides have already been tough on i wells and for many months and yet the situation hasn't deescalate it and it's a very serious situation you had a deadly exchange back in june that led to many deaths on both sides and that meant that mistrust was very high emotions are very raw so it's going to be very difficult to walk back down the escalation later and you know it's good you have this agreement to just start the escalating but what i worry about is that you know

the 2 sides have been having talks like this for so long how long will it be willing to keep talking if you don't get the immediate and clear results that both sides would have wanted to have by now and you know if the 2 sides agree that talking isn't working then i think you have to worry about what the well one of the things i think they're talking about is confidence building measures in order to maintain peace and tranquility in that area what could those measures involve. well i mean i think it entails having both sides treats and go back to the positions they had been in before this clash started and that one tailed having a lot of constant dialogue between the 2 militaries on very high levels but again i mean you talk about confidence building measures there's so little trust right now on both sides and yes i mean you can have these meetings between the 2 foreign ministers but their motions are still are often what happened in june these borders

that were common between the 2 sides but typically you'll have a provocation money talks and a lie down he don't usually have violence you never have deaths along the a lot of the line of actual control so i think that means that one of her and you will situation right now this is a particularly tense crisis and so you get to why you whine about trying to have confidence building measures and building trust and all that but it's one of the a lot more difficult this time around than it would have been and you know that in many previous borders that have taken place between the 2 countries well michael we have seen this escalation and tensions in the east and the back region recently did that increase the agence here to try to resolve this is that why we're seeing this kind of tenuous jail now. well yes and you know these 2 these 2 leaders have been scheduled to be in russia anyway there is a regional leading that was planned so i think they were taking advantage of the

fact that they were going to be there anyway to have a discussion but indeed given that things have escalated just over the last few days especially as india has engaged in one muscular actions that sells trying to push back against chinese provocations indeed i think that highlighted just how significant the stakes are and how there really is a need for the 2 sides to do everything we can to try to start winding things down and now the weather is expected to get worse with that because very brutal winter so i think there is a desire to try to figure out a way to wind things down before mother nature does her thing and makes it more difficult for each side to maintain their their positions where they are with their current deployments right now plant the situation will continue watching very closely indeed michael covel monette from the wealth and center thanks so much for joining us here on out of their paycheck and thank you thank you. another night of violent protests has kicked off in colombia's capital bogota with demonstrators throwing molotov cocktails at

a police station 9 people have already been killed and at least a $300.00 injured during the rallies against the death of a man in police custody in colombia the anger has been driven by a video showing 43 year old lawyer john as being repeatedly shot by offices with a taser a stun gun our correspondent alison program is involved with more. thousands of people are out on the streets for a 2nd night here in the capital as you can see behind me we are in front of one of the many neighborhoods police stations in bogota and many of them were burned to the ground last night the protesters have been hurling rocks at the police at this station throwing molotov cocktails at this police station to try and light it on fire just just one of the 15 different demonstrations that have been called for at this 2nd i of protests and riots that were sparked by the killing on part of the

police about 43 year old a lawyer that was out on the streets drinking with some friends in violation of coronavirus restrictions the situation is quite tense here. it could get quite more animated any moment now. and if we're going to have to see us tonight that will be as violent as last night just to remind you 9 people were killed last night shot to with the gunfire another $66.00 people were injured by firearms well earlier i spoke to daniel garcia penya he's a former high commissioner for peace in colombia he says tension around police actions has been building for many. there's a long history of police brutality in colombia in fact of going back to my 1929 eighties a university student was all over i was killed by the police on june 8th and every

year to native the date that students remember that act but for many years police brutality was was overlooked was was tolerated with the armed conflict with the war on drugs but more recently the to the issue has come back last year in november another student to land cruise was killed by by police he was protesting was killed by a bin bag and his death was set off protests and and so we're seeing now is a combination of outrage for what happened with javier or the lawyers last night but a lot of anger against a colombian police is built and built up over the years police in colombia highly militarized police force that their weapons their their their their fact one of the few countries in the world in democracies that the police is actually part of the of the defense ministry alongside the army the the air force the the navy so

there's there's a culture of the police that that the least of this but also has a lot of do with with with the way that the the pandemic in the poverty and the inequality globe is one of those in unequal consider the world all of these things have led to what we're seeing on the streets of a border a large explosion has rocked the outskirts of jordan's capital and it happened in those aka governorate that's about 32 ounces northeast of amman authorities have finished putting out the flames jordan's minister siniora says says the blast happened in a warehouse where unusable water bombs are being stored he also says it was caused by an electrical short. how the greek government a standing fan and telling migrants left homeless off to be a campus gossip by fire they will not be moved to the mainland blazes ripped through maria camp on the island on tuesday and wednesday following protests over coronavirus restrictions reports from. the 3rd in as many

days in moria camp planes helicopters and fire trucks battled what seems to be a recurring nightmare of destruction but these fires are not accidental flare ups from smoldering ruins they are springing up because someone is lighting them this new fire in moria camp which the fire service seems unable to control despite several attempts is now threatening to engulf the last remaining quarter of the camp that is inhabitable and a few residents remain here refusing to leave their premises the gas canisters you can hear going off helping this far to spread very quickly indeed we witnessed the beginning of this fire it didn't start in one place it started in 3 places all within an hour of each other it appears that these fires are being set deliberately by people who want to see the last remains of this camp disappear this afghan family refuses to leave caught between 2 thought fronts they insist on using the

oven they have painstakingly built to bake bread they have needed this morning until police are shut them out in burnt areas all that remains is door hinges bolts in the ils a child's collection onions stacked against the wall testified to the valiant efforts of refugees to rebuild fractured lives where the fires allow refugees return to salvage belongings which they drag back to where they are camping out awaiting shelter hundreds of families are forced to sleep on the road they have been promised a ship a tent or a municipal building but these things have not yet materialized. 2 kilometers from moria camp local residents have set up a road. blog they've heard that the government plans to send bulldozers to rebuild the camp and they want to stop them from getting through. wrong about up we have the for years we've had problems all the all of groves destroyed the sewage treatment doesn't work the sewage runs to the sea and poisons our wells they steal

our sheep every day nothing has been lived there trying to rebuild the camp they don't want to move it elsewhere because it's convenient for them we're going to use our bodies as shields we can't do anything else we've finished anyway the refugees don't want to rebuild either they want to leave but that is now more difficult the asylum service is burned out the offices and interview booths destroyed so is the paper archive that was housed here which means that many applications have to be filed from the beginning and many people have months longer to spend here than they did before this week's fires. lesbos. sudan has declared an economic state of emergency after its currency fell by more than 40 percent in recent weeks the transitional government has blaming that on manipulation by those opposing it special courts will be set up to counter the smuggling of gold and precious metals officials say those involved in such crimes have been part of

a systematic operation to vandalize the economy. at least 11 people are now known to have died and a half a 1000000 people have been ordered from their homes and the u.s. state of oregon wildfires continue to sweep through forests and ravaged towns along the west coast as firefighters struggle to contain them has been in. san francisco a dawn thursday in ominous sign of what the day would bring fires chewing through hector after hector pushed by fast moving winds devouring the dry land in its path and destroying everything entire towns gone. horrible terrible absolutely terrible you don't know whether your home is going to be there when you get back we have animals that we couldn't bring with us that our cows hopefully we have place to live because of our stuff burns down that's i mean i'm on a fixed income millions told to be ready to flee some making the narrowest of escapes

if there is there is fire 360 degrees around me among the dead 2 found a car that didn't make it through the wall of flames in oregon and a one year old baby boy in washington state. to put this in perspective in the last 3 days we have lost more to 2 fires then any single in tow you are in the history of the state of washington except 2015 leaders are warning residents the death toll will surely climb there are almost $100.00 fires burning throughout the west the vast majority of them uncontained and growing the fires that are going on in the western united states right now are unprecedented even to our most senior leadership and senior most tenured people on instant management teams in this country we have not seen this before tens of

millions of people impacted even those far away in los angeles the pollution level reached. a high not seen in 26 years and by all indications all of it is just going to continue to get worse in the coming days. al-jazeera. well still ahead here on al-jazeera growing anger in egypt i have a government campaign that could force millions from the arab. world. hello there are no tie figurines in this forecast in fact we seem to go back to drop a seasonal rain is a bit ragged admittedly but once again a pulse has developed in western china it's moving out through the east into the east china sea overnight but it keeps going keep developing and has potential for

flooding there for exists in south korea and the western side of the major japanese islands are all states doing that as a bit of a threat or a fairly frequent showers in tokyo and certainly east side of honshu potential for flash flooding at least exists here but once that's gone through it's just don't think you have much more power for a few showers in sichuan are you now and there's not much going on in china that's dried out again whereas further south to most of malaysia or indonesia there's an increasing frequency and intensity of showers chance will be more flooding but not yet in jakarta mr java looks dry the focus is on the on the borneo issue in kuala lumpur singapore you're probably going to be a nice a thunderstorm at some point during the day the monsoon rains through india look like they're retreating and they are but not officially yet and they could certainly move slowly slowly further north but in the immediate future from the horatia down to carola that side of india is particularly wet.

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now again. let's remind you of our top stories here the south protest against police brutality in colombia once again turned violent with demonstrators throwing molotov cocktails at a police station on wednesday 9 demonstrators were killed and hundreds injured during protests against the death of a man in police custody in the capital by the time. there's been a large explosion in jordan it happened in the zaka governor's about 30 kilometers northeast of the capital amman where 30 years have finished putting out the flames jordan's minister for media affairs says the blast happened in a warehouse where unusable most of bombs were being stored. in india and china have agreed to on the existing border agreements after months of increasing tensions in the himalayas and a joint statement they've also vowed not to escalate the situation further and have said they'll carry out confidence building measures. on the taiwan is sounding alarm over china conducting large scale joint and naval exercises off that

southwestern coast denouncing the move as a severe provocation and a threat to global air traffic china claims taiwan as part of its territory and us threatened to attack it if the country refuses to submit to beijing's control indefinitely taipei views this as intimidation to force it to accept chinese rule and it's now urging beijing to rein in its armed forces well. we call authorities in beijing to order its army to exercise restraint these recent actions have drawn resentment among taiwanese people china should stop being a troublemaker and make contributions instead to regional peace and stability. and now the reuters news agency is reporting that the chinese government has banned the media from publicizing the release of a new disney movie. the movie has caused outrage because it was partially shot in the shins young region where china is accused of committing human rights abuses against muslims. b. has a story my father cannot fight. so i will take his place disney has high hopes

for me land in china bought a publicist a blackout is another blow for the controversial people kill the star of the land you a fake raised outraged by voicing support for the police crackdown on anti-government protesters in hong kong and this and it was partly shot in the should jan region where china is accused of committing human rights abuses against muslim week is hong kong protest leader joshua anyone who believes in human rights should support the movie now it's time for people to through the action like this need to know that china should not be the way out and force our parties and actors and boss to police brutality the world will respond and back fire to it what is unique soldier the movie is based on a 2000 year old chinese legend of a young girl who disguises herself as a boy to join the chinese imperial army it's tailored to appeal to audiences in

china the world's 2nd largest levy market. i won't watch the movie milan because the actor louis freeh supports the police he doesn't have any real awareness of what the protestors and even the government did if she is just supporting the police blindly it's not good. media companies in china say they received orders from the government not to cover the release of the movie the reason was given but some believe it was because of the backlash. you're saying that the film alone involves changing issues right 1st there's no such thing as ridge occasion camps and changing the establishment of the kitchenette legislation and training centers in changing is in accordance with the law. film industry analysts say does the should be concerned because the personal views of audiences can impact to be these financial success victoria gay to be

al-jazeera. will have to ask me to adrian fenty is a senior fellow in china studies at the victims of communism memorial foundation he joins us now from minneapolis evan we just heard that the chinese government denying the existence of these internment camps but whatever you call them there are hundreds of thousands of week has detained some of them and in areas very close to where this film was shot that's very true the internment campaign in fact started in early 2017 and according to instagram evidence it is new team did some scouting in september that very year that means there were already internment camps in place and many many thousands detained by the time they were scouting out the locations i see that the films credits also thank the chinese government including the public security bureau who are administering those camps i know about bureaus on the u.s. blacklist could there also be fallout for this in the u.s. . that's

a very interesting question. there has been criticism certain senators in the united states have criticised for example the n b a or other large international companies such as airlines who are removing references to taiwan as a country in response to chinese pressure of course the n b a like course and therefore the role of american capitalism in court toeing to beijing's demands i think is actually one of the factors that has been driving some of the harder line of the trump administration to control chinese influence. while just going back to something you said earlier you were suggesting that there's no way that disney would have known and wouldn't have not known and i'm sorry about the camps there i want to ask what would have needed to happen for a film of this scale to be shot on location there i mean and it often location fee is a part of the deal for instance and they have also been suggestions that script approval may have been part of the conditions does that even raise further concerns i think

the significance concerns because producing a movie and a police state reach election john i mean even anywhere in china you'd need a whole range of government permissions but in chincha you need a lot of extra commission you need a strong relationship you basically need the agreement of the authorities and of course the authorities were confident that disney would portray the region and the country of china very positively but this is a very problematic collaborations with a regime that puts muslim minorities into internment camps at a time where this mass internment was ongoing and accelerating and this kind of complicity is just absolutely profoundly shocking i want to ask you more about the portrayal here because this film has also been criticized for being a regatta taishan of china's current nationalist myth especially with the dominant hand majority also of missing cultural new aunts also by some of the pet trading stereotypes about islamophobia for you are these valid critiques. these critics are

very valid from what i have gathered the actual background research online has been done very poorly there has been a conflation of stereotypes and the portrayal of the ethnic minorities and the whole ethnic situation is very inappropriate and it's doubly inappropriate because of the way china is repressing these western minorities so in a way disney's mulan is in many ways reproducing chinese government propaganda points and why the stereotypes of the han majority towards its own ethnic minorities well as the tories report mentioned there also calls for this boycott of the film of hong kong in addition to the issues around the weaker community so let me ask you then do you plan to go and see this film. i guess i have not particularly planned to see it especially after actor statement about the hong kong police force but now with this injuring involvement i think it's doubly unlikely

especially also because of the cultural conflation if i wanted to see a movie like this i would actually want to learn something about real history. adrian sense there a senior fellow in china studies at the victims of communism while foundation great to get your thoughts here on out of there thanks for being with us adrian thank you now the chief executive and 2 senior executives of a mining company that destroyed the agent caves in western australia a stepping down rio tinto has been widely criticized for blowing up the 46000 year old rock shelters in may to expand an iron ore mine that you can gorge caves are one of the earliest known sites occupied by the indigenous people there are 10 toes internal review found blasting legal but neglected the company's own guidelines and cut bonuses of its top executives. tech giant microsoft says russian chinese and iranian hackers are all trying to spy on people involved in the u.s.

presidential campaigns and says the same russian hacking group linked to the state that attempted to influence the 2016 election is now making new attacks microsoft also says chinese hackers are mostly focused on people doing to joe biden's campaign while iranians are targeting those connected to donald trump but it says so far most attacks have been unsuccessful anger is growing in egypt over the demolition of thousands of homes built illegally the new government campaign has sparked red protests in several cities elects here brian reports. thousands of egyptians are being offered what they say is an impossible choice watched their home being destroyed or paisa keep it at a price many can't afford the government says the buildings are illegal constructed without permits on state or farmland or buildings that were meant to be 2 or 3 stories which kept on going up and up went to get the market and this is we have

enough technical and engineering equipment to go to every place and demolish all these violating buildings. egypt's illegal housing problem is caused by its booming population now about 100000000 and rising as well as a lack of affordable homes and decades of government corruption. president abdel fattah el-sisi says the illegal construction could destroy the state arguing that more than a 3rd of buildings break the law he says 700000 violations have been registered and is threatening to send in the army to make sure the unwanted buildings are torn down. that sparked rare protests in several cities such as alexandria a crowd saying to the president a message we don't want you the numbers may be small but the significance isn't egypt banned gatherings like this in 2013 dozens of people were reportedly arrested in similar rallies in july the military dominates the decision making

process so that decisions are. heavy handed and very repressive and the people that are suffering the consequences are the weakest people in. society. so. basically fighting back is rather limited homes have long been forcibly demolished in egypt this family spoke to al jazeera in 2009. how their home could be illegal when they had paid power and water bills to the state for years and this is the military bulldozing homes in northern. sinai and 2015. rights groups say much of the destruction was unlawful but the look of the country should have dealt with these violations a long time ago when the took place throwing around 3000000 people in the streets is unacceptable. protesters accuse the government of squandering public funds on expensive new cities and projects while millions live in poverty that total could

soon increase with many uncertain how much longer they'll have a roof over their heads elixir brian al jazeera. now activists from greenpeace have blocked an oil tanker from delivering its cargo to sweden to kill refinery the organizations flagship rainbow warrior dropped and again a few order near the facility to block the tankers passage and carrying crude oil from norway the activists are drawing attention to a planned expansion of swedish feel company preens refinery which they say would result in increasing carbon dioxide emissions by up to a 1000000 tons per year. again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines india and china have agreed to on the existing border agreements after months of increasing tensions in the himalayas in

a joint statement they've also vowed not to escalate the situation further and have said they'll carry out confidence building measures. protests against police brutality in colombia have once again turned violent with demonstrators throwing molotov cocktails at a police station on wednesday 9 demonstrators were killed and hundreds injured during rallies in bogota the ngos been driven by a video showing 43 year old lawyer javier or donna's being repeatedly shot by offices with a taser stun gun the father of 2 died minutes. a munitions storage facility has exploded into flames north of jordan's capital amman the minister for media affairs says unusable mortar bombs were being stored in the warehouse and electrical short circuit is being blamed for triggering that explosion there are no reports of casualties home for a 1000000 people have now been ordered to leave their homes in the u.s. state of oregon where wildfires continue to spread about 100 blazes are now ripping through the u.s. west coast and have already caused at least 11 fatalities firefighters are battling

flames that have consumed entire towns and communities smoke has also blanketed cities from san francisco to seattle a record 3400000 acres of land have burned so far the c.e.o. and 2 other senior executives of a mining company that destroyed ancient caves in western australia are stepping down rio tinto has been widely criticized for blowing up 46000 year old rock cells as in may to expand an iron ore mine the you can gorge caves are one of the earliest known aboriginal heritage sites rio tinto has internal review found blasting legal but neglected the company's own guidelines and cut bonuses of its top executives. well those are the headlines about the morning his hair off that women make science from the lab to the field to stay with us i am steep climb and soon i have a question because these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important the bottom line tackles the big issues this is shaping the

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