back i ask the government to release them i'm really worried i've lost my child but please let my husband go. with 4 other states in the process of path and what is more couples are expected to be criminalized performing in love and marrying people outside they have addiction elizabeth purana. with empathy. that is kids heavy with a slow way train fitting in here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. food and drug administration is or the rise to have urgency use of a 2nd coronavirus fact seen masson occupation is expected to start within days for the madonna vaccine maybe 6000000 doses to be dispatched nationwide this weekend a white house correspondent kelly how cook reports we've heard a lot of talk about similarities between the madrid

a vaccine and also the pfizer vaccine we know that they are going to be prescribed rather similarly in other words that it is for individuals 18 years of age and so what they're saying is that again with this madrid a vaccine like the pfizer vaccine that there just isn't enough testing in data done on children and young adults or teenagers so as a result they are not encouraging it for those under the age of 18 and once again like we found out with the pfizer vaccine those that have anaphylaxis who are susceptible to allergic reaction should not get this vaccine that is also the case with modernity only a u.s. vice president mike pence was inaugurated with the fire beyond tech back seen in a televised event president elect joe biden will do the same on monday politicians are getting their jobs in public to boost american confidence in the vaccination process. mexico city is suspending all non-essential activities and then attempts to control the latest spike in infections it comes

a day off to mexico's president pleaded with the city's residents to stay off the streets more than 300 students in nigeria being reunited with their families a week after they were kidnapped parents of the woman say they've cut cedar rejoiced as they saw their sons for the 1st time since they were taken 344 boys were kidnapped from their school last friday by an armed by armed men on motorbikes the u.s. congress has managed to temporarily avoid a government shutdown it's approved a 2 day extension of funding to keep agencies operating until sunday that's as republicans and democrats try to resolve sticking points on a $1000000000.00 coronavirus relief package more news on 0 after up front next. as the sun goes down the challenge right now is a very challenging place to work at the. even though the authorities here say you can't do it it's not allowed to build. on

a lot of the kinds of money that we've gone through a lot of people are being taken for peacefully my fear for the kids is that we are traveling the extra mile away all the media the world we go dear. bangladesh is under fire for relocating or hendra refugees to a remote island off the coast human rights groups say that some are being forced to relocate and one has even called it an island detention center we'll speak with a representative from amnesty international about the growing crisis but 1st is india's far more protests continue to block major highways into new delhi as prime minister narendra modi gone too far with his agricultural reforms that is our arena .

since late last month tens of thousands of indian farmers have camped along highways outside new delhi's borders braving the cold temperatures and the risk of coronavirus to protest controversial agriculture reforms a minister in the interim modi says the new laws are necessary to deregulate and modernize india's agriculture sector which is the primary source of income for 58 percent of indians but farmers say they were not consulted when the reforms were pushed through and worry the changes will make them vulnerable to exploitation from large corporations so as the protests enter their 4th week is there an end in sight to this standoff help us answer this we're joined by adela seeing a spokesperson of the ruling party ajanta party and again the president of the saroj india party and a member of the take his son on the line one of the farmers organizations leading the protest against i want to start with you and because of your involvement in the protests i mean you've actually been at these protest camps near the new delhi

border there have been 6 rounds of talks between the government and the farmers the government has said that they are willing to make 7 amendments to the bill including a written assurance that they will not do away with what's known as the minimum support prices for. armors the m.s.p. which is one of the biggest concern so why did the farmers reject those amendments what is it they want said in these talks there is actually very little talk. past each other and the government really doesn't want to listen to the far as the government not only wants to decide what it wants to say but it also seems to wish to decide what the pharmacy should be saving every time government says be conceded this demar be conceded that and in the evening farmers union says it would be never demanded it is farmers are saying something very clear procedurally all these experts broccoli without that without acceptance nor by trial and

by limited procedures they also avoided the federal can supposedly be substantively the real deal. is that this was dismantled compromised based seriously the existing grid is a marketing system. quote farmers department discipline. farmers feel that this is a signal of the state didn't draw from crickets chirp and bringing in not big every business get big or get your last is the kind of thing that might happen the government doesn't interest any of these things the government comes up to its white farmers are saying that the basic intent of these t. laws disturb verse many these want to search please take it up and just one final point are bush to be is that in dissent our discussion we forget that these 3 laws were meant to be historic gift to the farmers of india when you give someone and

that person says nothing to you actually don't want it and if you really want to give me something sure is what i really want when it's a school. so in l a what about what you get her saying basically you're saying that you are talking past each other. and that specifically the government is not listening. this is absolutely a wrong decision i can say so we have always take into consideration all that is the mission and vision of the prime minister nouri ligi says he and the company prime minister have been working for the people of our country and he is trying to improve the lightest type of all this ignorance is living in our country and he didn't test it he is going to improve the lives type of farmers as better than he became prime minister by unfortunately if i talk about most of my benji whenever that is a major change that absolutely happened is because this is

a democratic country and you know sushi looking surveillance and the learned enough system just a moment if i may you say that it's a democratic country but the way these bills were rammed through that is a problem so 1st you bypassed the parliament in june to create them into law as a temporary measure then when the bills buy only went to parliament that was in september there was no debate about the reforms the votes were not even properly counted the bills were passed with this chaotic voice but which is basically members of parliament just yelling yes or no and based on who can yell the loudest is that really the most democratic way to pass such divisive reforms you keep saying you're a democracy you know this is only in people but it meant yes the discussion you know it happened and all on political bodies they were present there and by voting and by and they do say this yes this business should be tossed for the sake of those. but i think that how was it with your face that all of the operative just

said i don't have a beautician just another me b.c. and then follow this look through busy i was saying did you go it is the at home but job which you can from one job and that it wasn't the only point 2 courses of the problems were being enough country so if you want to see. those who are sitting right on the borders and sieging that they either present to each and every farmer living living and i'm saying that is absolutely wrong and why has it been that because the dependency on the job is so much is so much on gave me n.z. that is read the other day that is a nexus in between the government it is easy and capitalist farmers and i do until wise to make do with and acquire. leaders like the other are and looking for them they have kept his promise that it britain has degraded use and that in many practices i can tell you sold that why but it wouldn't be

a dependency should reduce no this is the height that one job and honey i'm not they should move away from this dependency and they go i'm interested in this stat what does it say so 1st i just wanna make sure that our viewers know the a p.m.c. is the government run market she mentioned you and like you to respond. number one india has by name introduce each other's require it's one of the 2nd central see to that even if one bamboo demands written but then it was 40 is not at all why did not head. on one shop many point out that the place where i'm doing that i'm involved in that city not the national highway does not even one person dos almost from punjab these are almost all the best in the state of brightest and from the state attorney general and by seen that it follows need to rule out. their vengeance on government marketing system i suspect mr singh has let the get

out is to bet that's exactly what the farmer must suspect these bills are all about yes they actually read you right and you have going to top it farmers fear dead existing government market existence is about didn't give any and these proposals have been brought in. big business going to places that has decided the fear of the pond so you're going to let me ask you this we've talked about m.s.p. that the minimum support prices there are really sacrosanct for farmers but what's confusing and reality is very few farmers actually get those prices even the highest estimates have it 15 maybe 25 percent but most farmers and for instance where at the heart of these protests they do benefit from minimum support prices arts' protests about farmers at a certain part of the country are farmers elsewhere invested in this cause right now. you're absolutely right to support price that the government took to get to is

every year mainly remains of about 80 percent farmers don't benefit the most at all 20 percent bit farmers movement and organizations over the years could be demanding that this farm and it could be turned into it and it did the trick. it should become so if i have a $5060.00 instead what the government is saying is that the effect of what the government is doing would be to reduce scale doll district and maybe into 5. beneficiaries of the system the 1st ones to protest is remember everybody else is also joining it because what was that really saying is this we don't just disappear we never want to give us the gift that be bought and what they want is legal guy right. back at me muscled price in there if you wish your products that's what the farmers launch turn it into illegal gun why doesn't the government do it and yell

at. unfortunately people are late mr jago you know i'm damn pushed back to go just not going to stay on this is the cheapest and force is the sector and the by dissipation in g.d.p. is only 15 to 16 pursued this is a reason they do. that people even in farming say it didn't get more often they didn't want to want that new don't know a lot of these should be introduced in this sector they don't want that people should go and sell their produce difficulty to whom they want to lie and you want a king that would be and this week so you get empty is it possible. is it possible you would have ended is it you know if you read it and you get you to name one country you named one country which has gotten branded she crawls under anesthesia and they are happy. to say you are going to see the get end to end this race to the

bombers it is that easy to use and i mentioned earlier that it was a democratic country and lead love doolittle dick also i don't know who are in position to get but then you have to dumb decisions you need to have a strong political bias and that is what mr that in half are talking about politics and the prime minister narendra modi he is very popular but even popular leaders have limits particularly and a democracy or a he had acted deeply unpopular economic measures that the goods and services tax that massive the monetization move that bad 86 percent of the country's currency did that overnight even with those policies that hurt a lot of poor and marginalized indians he won reelection and a landslide here but now this overhaul that you're talking about that you are saying is the best thing for the farmer says overhaul of the agriculture sector that accounts for the livelihoods of more than half of all indians as you've both

pointed out. has he gone too far this time by alienating farmers a very important political constituency see this is what i mentioned that mr not in with he is the 1st prime minister. who never been stuck. under anything if he has to take a step for the nation he digs that he normally does time that he has to improve to light for us so he has taken the steps earlier also we have seen that a whole lot of credit and education he had to freeze or whatever steps he took. but he never been down and this time also he is to say that this is for the promise i am standing with up on this i have to do more options are the finest i have to create a get to know what i want to do ration to get involved in it because rather than

getting it so this is being understood by major major a.v.r. all the farming sector and the youngsters the species they are understanding so at that have to agree one that let me put that to you again to write so i know what she has been saying is that these changes that the prime minister wants to make are actually for the good of the farmers and there is a segment of it the farmers that are better and invested in this not working they don't want to work and the younger generation gets it it is do you agree with that where do the farmer stand on this are there different groups that feel differently and what about what she's saying that they know what's best for you because 19th century it is and i guess in democracies from. what my friend described a simple job it is shoot. just a lot of the long run. and it is absolutely. deep when it has the action.

done by just tonight it will be. i'm going to expose expose one of the greatest economic disaster be anything new that come to us and i'm really the more it seems more apt bits of mr multi-user political genius i would never did not he continues to be popular i did not did i but does he have what it takes to objects an economy like india someone who digs such knowledge decisions with him do you want to say she was just you she will stick with deduced single serious economist in the country and this decision has been with them sort of biggest single song it's getting such a prime minister an excuse because i really. do want to tell his issue he got away with the media's of the decisions he quote but this time is.

needed on it to get it back to cool global damage that it is serious and i'm afraid that is the kind of mr that had to use it by just and that will be the final word again and they'll us saying thank you so much for joining me in the arena. some 1000000 russians are muslim refugees now living there bangladeshis cox's bazaars the threat of genocide persists and their home country me and mar with no hope of repatriation in the near future the bangladeshi government is looking for new ways to grapple with one of the largest refugee populations in the world including sending refugees to an island off the coast of bangladesh that plan has tried international outcry as human rights groups say such a move would deprive refugees of their freedom of movement and subject them to potentially dangerous living conditions as bengal destine was safe haven for the right hensher or is it turning into just another nightmare joining me to discuss this from colombo sri lanka samadi south asia campaigner at amnesty. international

body thank you so much for joining me on upfront so bangladesh has been celebrated for taking in so many of our head refugees fleeing neighboring me and mark but now it's under fire from human rights groups for this attempt to relocate about 100000 people to this 40 square kilometer island called basin char your organization amnesty international has reported allegations of sexual abuse by those in charge of policing the island fortify rights of human rights organization that has been investigating crimes against humanity a memoir for years has called this island based and char island detention center so why is the government continuing to relocate refugees there when plenty of experts have pointed out this this is not the right place there may be better options. yes we have heard accounts of allegations from refugees who are on the island allegations of sexual harassment and sexual abuse and we've called on the

bangladeshi government to investigate those allegations clearly these allegations that we've heard from the refugees killed or abuse have not responded or are clarified on those allegations when we sought their right to reply we don't think nations have not had the opportunity to go to the island to assess on its own and same goes for the humanitarian agencies that human rights groups are concerned is that the track to refugee situation where you have the international community contributing humanitarian assistance and where the onus is on the international community to support bangladesh and the room the refugee crisis as big as this it's important that all the actors have their access have their mandate to carry out the assessment that they need to determine whether the island is habitable the scientific data that is needed to the feasibility of operating between the mainland

and the island and all those concerns we don't have those data yet we called on the bound issue apologies to allow amnesty international to go to the island and people themselves what what what is there what kind of conditions there are to ensure the freedom of movement between the island and the mainland what what guarantees there are so we don't know for certain whether where the ok society bangladeshi government they have said that this relocation is necessary and an effort to improve security because of concerns and these camps which are very cramped there's been a gang related violence there that's resulted and at least people being killed in october and the displacement of 2000 families that the government have a point that they have to do something yes we've seen the gang violence happening up to. but that could be a pretext for for many reasons and the violence in the camp in the refugee camp in cops is bizarre cannot just because i relocation to an island what it calls for is

investigation independent immediate and impartial investigation of who the people are behind the abuse violence in the camps that cannot be a reason for relocation to an island particularly without the participation of the refugees and the assessment being done we're not opposed to any relocation let's let's just be clear on that we're not proposing a relocation it's bangladesh has extended its generosity at hosting the refugees i think what's most important here is to look at the participation process of the refugees if they're competent i do want to ask you that about that when you talk about the participation the government has said that they are not forcing anyone to go to this island but their reports of people's names being added to a list without consent people fleeing for fear of forcibly being relocated to these islands hunger strikes allegations of beatings is the government lying when it says

it's not forcing anybody to go to this island so we've heard allegations there have the circumstances where at least your energies have said that their shelters were damaged and they wanted to have them fixed but the camp authorities said they should consider relocating to be island instead and the show has been authentic so they feel that they relocated out of compulsion than a choice so that that's some of the experiences the one woman who spoke to amnesty international saying that her husband has been on the island since may and she didn't feel that he could come back to the camp and with. being a single parent with a son he she felt that it was difficult for her to stay in the camp for this low. long and she thought that she would go reunite with her husband instead so in all these anecdotes that i've that i'm sharing with you it looks like some refugees were in the. force their way or they felt compelled to go to the island instead of

i mean this is not the standard definition of a voluntary decision that we understand ok i want to talk a little bit more specifically about the forced relocation to this island because it seems the island itself just the island not even just the conditions the island itself is dangerous it's less than 2 metres above sea level it's entirely made of felt it just a martian to see 20 years ago bangladesh is already very vulnerable to cyclons flooding storm surges so how could an island like this even be considered when it seems to just be a sitting duck basically for a cycle so a cycle has not directly hit the island there have been a recent cycle that took place i don't i'm done but that has gone past. the island it has it has had in other places not the island they have been concerned with the embankment levels in the past that we've learned from previous short assessment

that have been carried out by farm agencies but these are not publicly accessible i mean for us as amnesty international we think that without growing to the island without knowing the facilities that there are we heard from the british authorities we've heard from other others as well but it's all hearsay so far the authorities the british authorities are saying that they have created the simplest infrastructure they've developed this infrastructure over the last 3 years they've created embankment created we accommodate with this is all good but we don't know for certain about what safeguards there are with regard to the human rights where can they go if there is any allegation of the human rights violation and what are their options to the community. to with their family members in cops is bizarre the freedom of movement the sustainable livelihood their access to education all that

is i mean even if the balance authorities say that they're here where it is there's a lack of transparency that's back home so we not have not had that opportunity to go for ourselves and see the facilities ourselves now to be fair to the bangladeshi government many have rightly criticised the international community for failure to put enough pressure on the defacto leader of the m.r. of course that sounds on sochi to to stop the genocide in the 1st place and how much of this crisis does fall on the shoulders of the international community. i think to a large extent because bangladesh is a small country it's a country of 160000000 people. and that too with its own challenges economy challenge challenges employment literacy those challenges are there for bangladesh as well it's becoming middle income country it has it ever striving for that for that status but until that happens when you have this kind of responsibility very late international community certainly has

a role to play in supporting the refugees in supporting bangladesh with managing the refugees for as long as they are and and more importantly i think to expedite the process of creating conditions in myanmar for the returns to happen in the state voluntary and dignified conditions it's not just about the justice and accountability macan of them that's already going on but the i.c.c. have taken up to investigate and it's also going on in other. international platforms as well but having said that i think the pressure needs to be put on myanmar really to end the violence and come into the discussion with the victims with the rohingya community and recognise that their rights have been violated and those rights they have to be guaranteed just as any other people or any other any other people of the of any country and that will be the last word

sata madi with amnesty international thank you very much for joining us on outfront . and that is our show for this week probably back next. and i can just processed an arab spring swept through countries across the middle east and northern africa in a series of interviews we explore the legacy of the revolution that changed the political landscape of the region tunis is former president marzouki discusses the arab spring 10 years on. the zipper willed ring and disjointed days especially for the young my life changed because i can't say we have to be careful to not get sick i don't sit university study found the one in 5 children i'm now afraid to

leave their homes the sense of disorientation and confusion i think would be very understandable natural reaction to children and in the past few weeks secure mental health units have been forced to discharge large numbers of patients there are children suffering from psychosis who believe the virus is a conspiracy of those with eating disorders or histories of self harm we're going to have a time bomb this is building up to mental health jenny the world's attention is on controlling the virus for the recount list hidden victims even when the pandemic passes there will be many in desperate need of help. and. what are some have been doing with the money that it's boring we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in argentina as congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars for the super rich poor families hit

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